Seen through the eyes of a New Zealand girl. The center of the story is the Lamprey family, English aristocrats, Undervests, leant out of portholes to stare.' There is an artist in She looks out at the other ships at anchor Let me end withĪrriving by boat in London. Writing is as good as any to be found in crime fiction. (1940) among the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. The critic and awarded mystery writer H.R.F. Before going back to her home country, she spent six Entitled Exit Sir Derek it was staged in the Little Theatre of Canterbury University College. In addition, they adapted the novel as a play. MarshĬalled him "Papa Jellett." The Nursing Home Murder (1935) was co-written with Jellet. After beingĭiagnosed with a uterine-related cancer, she underwent in 1934 Societies in New Zealand, and published detective novels. Throughout theġ930s Marsh painted occasionally, wrote plays for local repertory Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers's Lord Peter WimseyĪnd a realistically depicted police official at work. Which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Lived in Marton Cottage at Cashmere, where he had built a house for hisįamily. For theįollowing seventeen years, Marsh took care of her elderly father. Rose Marsh died from liver cancer in November. She returned in August 1932 to New Zealand. Rhodes, a succesfull interior decorating business in Knightsbridge. Travelled in 1928 to England, and opened, in partnership with Mrs. Painting, acting, and producing in the theater in the 1920s, she Edward Bristed, her childhoodįriend and unofficial fiancé, died in December 1917 in action at Flanders.Ĭraft at the school of Drama and Dancing in Christchurch.
From 1915 to 1920 she attendedĬanterbury University College School of Art. Her mother's grandfather was an early colonist in NewĪt the age of 15, Marsh entered St. Rose Elizabeth was a talentedĪmateur actress. Marsh's father, an emigrant from England, Pronounced "ny-o", is a Maori word, meaning "Reflections on the water",Īnd was chosen by her uncle. Henry Edward and Rose Elizabeth (Seager) Marsh. Ngaio Marsh was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the only Picture could be assembled the rest would have to be discarded." Puzzles had been thrown down on the table and before the one required It was as if the components of several jigsaw Self-contradictory nature and only a scanty winnowing found to be of
Unearthed turned out to be of no relevance, much was of doubtful or She did notĪlways see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter. Span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic Englishĭetective novels, which gained international acclaim. Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. Mystery's golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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