A Brief Look at Ngaio Marsh’s Roderick Alleyn
by Sharon Tucker
One of the pleasures of reading Golden Age detective fiction is living for a time on pages where beautiful manners are celebrated. Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh dress the literary stage with detectives whose elegance is a byword to this day. True, Christie’s two detectives, Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, are a bit less conventional than Marsh’s Alleyn, Sayers’s Wimsey, and Allingham’s Campion.
