author
Marjorie Douie
d. 1946
Best known for a 1920 mystery set in colonial Burma, this early 20th-century writer brought a strong sense of place to her fiction. Her work has endured through later reprints and its availability in the public domain.
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The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery
by Marjorie Douie
About the author
Marjorie Douie was a writer associated with The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery, a novel first published in 1920. Project Gutenberg lists her as "Marjorie, 1888?-1946," which suggests she was born around 1888 and died in 1946.
The Pointing Man is set in Burma and centers on a disappearance in a bazaar, mixing mystery with vivid local atmosphere. Readers coming to her today often notice the book's detailed setting and its portrait of life in a colonial-era city.
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