An abandoned work by this author, Money in the Morgue, was completed by Stella Duffy in 2018, working from the title and first three chapters. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of 33 novels featuring Roderick Alleyn, including Surfeit of Lampreys and A Man Lay Dead.
ANSWER: Ngaio Marsh [or Edith Ngaio Marsh]
[10e] Marsh’s Alleyn novels exemplify the “Golden Age” of this genre. Marsh is considered one of the four “Queens of” this genre along with Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Agatha Christie.
ANSWER: detective fiction [or crime fiction or reasonable equivalents; accept Queens of Crime]
[10m] In Marsh’s novel Colour Scheme, Maurice Questing dies in a mud pool, which characters of this ethnicity relate to a legend of theirs. Myths belonging to this ethnic group motivate Kerewin Holmes in the novel the bone people.
ANSWER: Maori [prompt on Polynesian]