Author: Drayton, Joanne.
Title: Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime.
Description: London HarperCollins, 2009. 1st p/b ed. Paperback small trade, good plus condition, black & white photos centre spread, front cover top edge & spine little creased, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear corner tips. 475 pp. A biography of Ngaio Marsh, a died-in-the-wool New Zealander: lively, acute, sympathetic, a well-balanced story of a single woman who was never alone nor lonely. She was an Edwardian who followed her muses in a thoroughly modern manner, and a writer who, while invincibly colonial, celebrated England's Golden Age of mystery as royally as its other queens of crime - Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. She wrote her first detective novel in a London flat in the 1930s: Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn appeared in A Man Lay Dead. In 1932, a family tragedy brought Marsh home to New Zealand, to a life divided - between hemispheres, between passionate relationships at home and abroad, and between her life as crime fiction writer and stage director. ISBN: 9780007328680

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