To write it, she drew upon her knowledge of theater and the many types that surround the performing arts. Written in 1935, this was the second book for Ngaio Marsh, theater director and eventually one of the ‘greats’ in crime fiction writers. Alleyn marries a painter, Agatha Troy, whom he meets during an investigation (Artists in Crime), and who features in several later novels.
Her short story "'I Can Find My Way Out" is also set around a theatrical production and is the earlier "Jupiter case" referred to in Opening Night. A number are set around theatrical productions (Enter a Murderer, Vintage Murder, Overture to Death, Opening Night, Death at the Dolphin, and Light Thickens), and two others are about actors off stage (Final Curtain and False Scent). Several novels feature Marsh's other loves, the theatre and painting. Before going back to her home country, she spent six months travelling about Europe.Īll her novels feature British CID detective Roderick Alleyn. In 1937 Marsh went to England for a period. Throughout the 1930s Marsh painted occasionally, wrote plays for local repertory societies in New Zealand, and published detective novels. Marsh's first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work. She did not always see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter.
Over a fifty-year span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic English detective novels, which gained international acclaim. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. Of all the "Great Ladies" of the English mystery's golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900, but she was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Urn:oclc:877695441 Republisher_date 20130516223554 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130515153125 Scanner Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. OL460703W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.19 Pages 260 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1937384292 Urn:lcp:entermurdereraro00ngai:epub:3a47dea2-d2b5-48c8-8e5c-c72fc8528891 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier entermurdereraro00ngai Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2s488133 Invoice 11 Isbn 0312966709ĩ780312966706 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL9776564M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:25:29 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1104823 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, N.Y.
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