Ngaio Marsh
WHICH ONE? Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, P. D. James, Ngaio Marsh?
These are five fantastic detective stories writers. If you have read, which detective would you consider the best? Why?
Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn
Lord Peter Wimsey
Comander Adam Dalgliesh
Robert Blair
Albert Campion.
Margery Allingham by several miles. She doesn’t love her hero to anything like the same extent as the others, she isn’t an anti-semite as Sayers is or a snob like Sayers and Marsh. Her books get better as she writes, more complex and trying to do more with the setting.
She doesn’t shove the books full of quotes to make you feel stupid and Albert has a character, which is more than can be said for Blair or Dalgliesh who is chiefly remarkable for not being remarkable at all.
The books are harder to find but well worth the effort.
Nicholas Hoare reviews mystery anthologies by Ngaio Marsh
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