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12 de jun. de 2024 · Internationally-renowned crime writer Dame Ngaio Marsh is one of Canterbury’s most famous authors. She was also a highly respected theatre director with the University of Canterbury Drama Society.
Hace 4 días · Ngaio Marsh Painting, 1930s, by Olivia Spencer Bower. Marsh initially pursued a career as an artist, and although she subsequently turned to acting and writing, she continued to paint throughout her life, which must have lent depth to her depiction of Troy's artistic powers of observation
Hace 1 día · Marsh’s books Enter a Murderer and The Nursing Home Murder are straight marches from murder to revelation. The former is set in a theater house, while the latter is in the mentioned nursing home. Each book is filled with so many characters it’s hard to keep track of them, although Marsh’s signature detective, Roderick Alleyn, and his journalist sidekick Nigel Bathgate are constants.
29 de jun. de 2024 · Ngaio Marsh House. Christchurch. Pre bookings essential. Experience the house and garden that helped to shape and was in turn shaped by one of the most illustrious, intriguing, and successful New Zealand women of the twentieth century.
Hace 9 horas · By Ngaio Marsh In an English village that houses the rich and the servants on their staff, Sybil Foster is unhappy. Despite her wealth and the fleet of servants catering to her every need, Sybil is faced with conflicts that money cannot solve; her daughter’s plans for marriage among them.
Hace 4 días · Through her writing and her theatre work, Joanne Drayton assembles the pieces to the puzzle that is Marsh, proving that life can be as thrilling as fiction. Marsh wrote her first detective novel in a London flat in the depths of the 1930s Depression, bringing life to Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn in her first book, A Man Lay Dead.
Hace 5 días · Pagan revelry and morris dancing in the middle of a very cold winter set the scene for one of Ngaio Marsh's most fascinating murder mysteries. When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing still practised there, she quickly antagonizes the villagers.
