Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ngaio Marsh
Charting Jul 26, 1943 → Mar 6, 1960 · 7 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| False Scent | #11 | 5 | 14.0 | ||
| Colour Scheme | #5 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
| Night at the Vulcan | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
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:
- 1Leon Uris620
- 2Taylor Caldwell442
- 3Allen Drury384
- 4Boris Pasternak353
- 5D.H. Lawrence251
- 6Eugene Burdick238
- 7William J. Lederer238
- 8Vladimir Nabokov192
- 9James A. Michener191
- 10Paul Gallico173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.