author
Marjorie Douie
d. 1946
A little-known early 20th-century novelist, she is remembered for a mystery set in colonial Burma that mixes vivid local color with a classic disappearance plot. Her work offers a glimpse of period crime fiction beyond the usual British drawing-room setting.
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The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery
by Marjorie Douie
About the author
Marjorie Douie was a British author best known for The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery, published in 1920. The novel was later preserved through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep her name in circulation even though very little biographical information about her is widely available today.
What can be confirmed is that she wrote fiction set in Burma and used that setting to give her mystery an atmosphere that still stands out. Readers who come across her work today often do so because they are exploring forgotten crime novels or public-domain fiction from the early 20th century.
Records associated with her burial indicate that she died in 1946, at about age 58. Beyond that, reliable details about her life are scarce, so her reputation rests mainly on the surviving novel rather than on a well-documented public biography.