A review by david_megginson
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh

3.0

Partway through, I'm still struggling to see why people put Ngaio Marsh on the same level as Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie as the "Grande dames" of golden-age mystery. Her books are competent, and I enjoy reading them, but they lack the spark that carries you through a Sayers or Christie novel (even when they're being formulaic) and tend to drag in the middle. Perhaps her later novels are much better.