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In 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously building a reputation as a distinguished director of Shakespearean theatre. She received the Crime Writers Association's Red Herrings Award in 1955 and was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1978. In 1948 Marsh was awarded an Office of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature and the theatre, and in 1967, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). As a New Zealander, Marsh was the only colonial writer to be ranked with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham as one of the grande dames of the Golden Age. Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work is a collection of essays celebrating this multifaceted talent—painter, playwright, director and detective novelist. Originally created to celebrate the centenary of Marsh's birth, this comprehensive profile addresses various aspects of this remarkable woman's personality, life, and work. Her official biographer, Margaret Lewis, her cousin John Dacres-Mannings, and two fellow Detection Club members—H.R.F. Keating and Julian Symons—pay tribute to Marsh as a person and a colleague. Marsh's career in the theatre is traced by Paul R. Bushnell, and its influence on her detective writing is assessed by Marilyn Rye and Catherine Aird. Her contribution as a novelist of manners is addressed by Alzina Stone Dale, Kathryne S. McDorman, B.A. Pike, and Susan Oleksiw, while her accomplishments in short fiction are discussed by Douglas G. Greene and Bruce Harding. In addition to the thirteen essays, this volume contains a chronology of Marsh's plays, as well as a bibliography of her novels and short stories. Nominated for both an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction and an Anthony Award for Best Critical Work, this book is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary woman who captured international acc
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810859395 |
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| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 04/26/2007 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.56(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.77(d) |
About the Author
B. J. Rahn teaches English literature at Hunter College in New York. She has been teaching, researching, and writing about crime fiction for over two decades. She has published articles in journals and reference books such as The Armchair Detective, St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writing, Scribner's Mystery & Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, The Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. Professor Rahn is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the Crime Writers Association in the UK, as well as the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, and the Margery Allingham Society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Biography - Reminiscence
To Ngaio, from her biographer, with affection and respect... Margaret Lewis 1
Thoughts on the Life of a Marvelous Woman John Dacres-Mannings 23
Outsold and Outsmarted, But... H. R. F. Keating 33
Random Recollections Julian Symons 37
Theatre in Life and Fiction
Ngaio Marsh: A Theatrical Avocation Paul R. Bushnell 43
Criminal Performances: The Spectacle of Crime in Ngaio Marsh's Detective Fiction Marilyn Rye 75
Ode on a Favorite Novel-Drowned in a Sea of Memory Catherine Aird 97
Detective Fiction: A Mirror of Social History
Ngaio Marsh's London Alzina Stone Dale 109
Roderick Alleyn and the New Professionals Kathryne S. McDorman 121
The Mannnered Mystery: Death of a Peer B. A. Pike 143
Judgment and Justice in Ngaio Marsh's Death and the Dancing Footman Susan Oleksiw 161
Short Fiction
Marsh's Miniatures: An Examination of Ngaio Marsh's Short Mystery Stories Douglas G. Greene 187
"The Great and True Amphibian": The New Zealand/England Polarity in the Short Fiction of NgaioMarsh Bruce Harding 201
Appendixes
A Chronology of Plays Directed by Ngaio Marsh 233
A Bibliography of Detective Novels Ngaio Marsh 241
A Bibliography of Short Mystery Stories Ngaio Marsh 245
Notes on Contributors 247
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