Ngaio Marsh (–1982)
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Ngaio Marsh was born on April 23, 1895 in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended St. Mary's College and Canterbury University. She worked in the theater acting, producing, and even painting scenery. She was a partner in an interior decorating business in England from 1928 to 1932. She later mehr anzeigen returned to New Zealand and produced plays for a Shakespearean repertory company. She also worked with the Drama Department of Canterbury University. During World War II, she served in the New Zealand Red Cross Transport Unit. She traveled to England frequently and founded the British Commonwealth Theatre Company in 1949. Her first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published in 1934. She wrote more than 40 books including the Roderick Alleyn Mysteries series and Black Beech and Honeydew. She also wrote theatrical and television plays. She was named to the Order of the British Empire in 1949 and was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. The Mystery Writers of America named her a Grand Master in 1977. She died on February 18, 1982 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Ngaio Marsh Collection 01: A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (2009) 137 Exemplare
Scales of Justice / Death of a Fool / Tied Up in Tinsel / Grave Mistake / Photo Finish (1983) 74 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 03: Death in a White Tie / Overture to Death / Death at the Bar (2009) 64 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 04: A Surfeit of Lampreys / Death and the Dancing Footman / Colour Scheme (2009) 56 Exemplare
Curtain Calls: Three Great Mysteries..Enter a Murderer..Night At the Vulcan...Killer Dolphin (1966) 55 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 05: Died in the Wool / Final Curtain / Swing, Brother, Swing (1998) 50 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 09: Clutch of Constables / When in Rome / Tied Up in Tinsel (2010) 45 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 07: Off With His Head / Singing in the Shrouds / False Scent (2009) 44 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 08: Death at the Dolphin / Hand in Glove / Dead Water (1999) 44 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 10: Black As He's Painted / Last Ditch / Grave Mistake (2010) 41 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 11: Photo-Finish / Light Thickens / Black Beech and Honeydew (1782) 35 Exemplare
The Ngaio Marsh Collection 06: Opening Night / Spinsters in Jeopardy / Scales of Justice (2009) 35 Exemplare
Three-act special; 3 complete mystery novels: A wreath for Rivera. Spinsters in jeopardy. Night at the Vulcan (1960) 24 Exemplare
The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries: The Nursing Home Murder; Death in a White Tie; Final Curtain (1993) 24 Exemplare
A Surfeit of Lampreys / Death and the Dancing Footman / Colour Scheme: Book 4 (The Ngaio Marsh Collection) 5 Exemplare
Singing in the Shrouds (abridged) 2 Exemplare
Ngaio Marsh 2 Exemplare
Enter A Murderer; A Man Lay Dead; Death At The Bar; Death And The Dancing Footman; Overture To Death, [in 5 volumes] (1941) 2 Exemplare
The Roderick Alleyn Mysteries: Surfeit of Lampreys, Death and the Dancing Footman, and Colour Scheme 1 Exemplar
Death In a White Tie, Death Of A Peer, Hand in Glove, Death And The Dancing Footwoman, Death At The Bar (1982) 1 Exemplar
Feines Ohr für falsche Töne 1 Exemplar
Ngaio Marsh DEATH OF A PEER 1940 The Book League of America, NY Early Reprint [Hardcover] unknown 1 Exemplar
Ngaio Marsh Complete eBook Collection 1 Exemplar
Opening Night | When in Rome 1 Exemplar
The Christmas tree 1 Exemplar
Death in the garden 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s (1989) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Detective Omnibus — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Marsh, Dame Edith Ngaio
- Geburtstag
- 1895-04-23 (unsicher)
1899-04-23 (Carney Britain in Pictures Bibliography) - Todestag
- 1982-02-18
- Begräbnisort
- Church of the Holy Innocents Churchyard Peel Forest, Timaru District, Canterbury, New Zealand
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Neuseeland
- Geburtsort
- Christchurch, Neuseeland
- Sterbeort
- Christchurch, Neuseeland
- Wohnorte
- England, Grossbritannien
Christchurch, Neuseeland - Ausbildung
- St. Margaret's College (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Canterbury College (School of Art) - Berufe
- theatrical producer
interior decorator
novelist
actor
painter
detective novelist - Organisationen
- Detection Club
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 1966)
MWA Grand Master (1978) - Kurzbiographie
- Ngaio Marsh was the pen name of Edith Ngaio Marsh, born in Christchurch, New Zealand to English immigrants. Her name, pronounced "ny-o," was a Maori word meaning "reflections on the water." She attended the private St. Margaret’s College, where she showed an aptitude for acting and writing, producing poetry, prose and plays.
In 1913 she entered Canterbury College School of Art and left in 1919 in order to become a professional painter. The opportunity to tour with the Allan Wilkie Shakespeare Company delayed her plans until later in the 1920s. In 1928, Marsh made her first visit to England, where she worked in the theatre, interior design, and travel writing. She began writing novels and soon embarked on a prolific crime-writing career. In 1934, she published A Man Lay Dead, featuring the very English Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn. During World War II, she served in a New Zealand Red Cross Transport Unit, driving repatriated soldiers in a hospital bus. By the 1950s, Marsh was considered a “Queen of Crime” along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
Marsh was passionately attached to her native country and returned to live in New Zealand but made frequent trips to England and other countries. She became a leader of the New Zealand theatre, mounting numerous Shakespeare plays. In her career, Ngaio Marsh wrote 32 novels and an autobiography, Black Beech and Honeydew (1965). She never married. Margaret Lewis wrote an authorized biography, Ngaio Marsh, A Life in 1991. New Zealand art historian Joanne Drayton's biography, Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime, was published in 2008.
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