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Ngaio Marsh portraitNgaio Marsh

Charting Jul 26, 1943Mar 6, 1960 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.09%
week of Mar 6, 1960
Career Power
24
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
14
March 1959 – March 1960
Peak Five Years
14
March 1955 – March 1960
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jul 26, 1943
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

3 books · 24 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
False Scent#11514.0
Colour Scheme#518.3
Night at the Vulcan#1512.1

At their peak

1959 in books

Ngaio Marsh's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1959 to March 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Leon Uris620
  2. 2Taylor Caldwell442
  3. 3Allen Drury384
  4. 4Boris Pasternak353
  5. 5D.H. Lawrence251
  6. 6Eugene Burdick238
  7. 7William J. Lederer238
  8. 8Vladimir Nabokov192
  9. 9James A. Michener191
  10. 10Paul Gallico173

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.