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The biography traces the life of New Zealand author and theatre director Ngaio Marsh (1895‑1982), detailing her rise from first detective novel in a London flat to her status as one of the four Queens of Golden Age detective fiction. The book follows Marsh through several decades of writing, her 32 Inspector Roderick Alleyn novels, her pivotal 1932 family tragedy that returned her to New Zealand, and her dual career as a celebrated stage director and actress. Drayton pieces together Marsh’s public successes—including the 1949 Penguin and Collins ‘Marsh Million’ bestseller surge—and her private guardedness, making a portrait as engaging as the suspense sequenced in her own mystery stories.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Joanne Drayton
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