What nationality was the detective story writer Ngaio Marsh?
"Edmund Crispin (1921-1978), Cyril Hare (1900-1958), and many more. Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), was a New Zealander but was also British, as was her detective Roderick Alleyn. Georges Simenon was from Belgium and wrote in French; his detective, Jules Maigret, was a Frenchman. Some writers, such as Mary Roberts Rinehart, S. S. Van Dine, Earl Derr Biggers, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Erle Stanley Gardner and Elizabeth Daley , were American but had similar styles. Others, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain, had a more hard-boiled, American style. Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh are often described"
"Ngaio Marsh Dame Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. Marsh is known as one of the ""Queens of Crime"", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). The Ngaio Marsh Award is awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing. Marsh"
"Ngaio Marsh Award The Ngaio Marsh Awards (formerly Ngaio Marsh Award), popularly called the Ngaios, are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence in crime fiction, mystery, and thriller writing. The Awards were established by journalist and legal editor Craig Sisterson in 2010, and are named after Dame Ngaio Marsh, one of the four Queens of Crime of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The Award is presented in Christchurch, the hometown of Dame Ngaio. The Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel was launched in 2010 by lawyer turned journalist Craig Sisterson, who wanted to create"
"name and an artistic impression of her likeness for New Zealand's first-ever crime fiction prize. The inaugural award was intended to be presented at the biennial Christchurch Writers Festival in September 2010, but had to be postponed due to a severe earthquake that struck the city that month, leading to the cancellation of the festival. The first Ngaio Marsh Award was presented at a special event in Christchurch in December 2010, and won by the pseudonymous author Alix Bosco for the thriller ""Cut & Run"". Bosco did not attend the presentation ceremony, but would later reveal 'herself' as New Zealand"
"was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where she also died. The origin of the name ""Ngaio"" is a Maori word which is the name of a flowering tree and also the name of an insect found in New Zealand. Her father neglected to register her birth until 1900 and there is some uncertainty about the date. She was the only child of Rose and bank clerk Henry Marsh, described by Marsh as ""have-nots"". Her mother's sister Ruth married the geologist, lecturer, and curator Robert Speight. Ngaio Marsh was educated at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, where she"
"1990), with Simon Williams (pilot) and then Patrick Malahide as Alleyn. In the 1990s the BBC made radio adaptations of ""Surfeit of Lampreys"", ""A Man Lay Dead"", ""Opening Night"", and ""When in Rome"" starring Jeremy Clyde as Inspector Alleyn. Ngaio Marsh co-wrote a 1951 episode ""Night at the Vulcan"" of the Philco Television Playhouse; and appeared as herself in the sixth episode ""The Central Problem"" in a television series of the unfinished Charles Dickens mystery novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" Ngaio Marsh Dame Ngaio Marsh (; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a"
"novelist Ngaio Marsh was a friend of the family, and lived on and off with Rhodes' grandparents (Arthur) Tahu Rhodes and Helen ""Nelly"" Rhodes (nee Plunket) in Britain in the 1920s and 30s; in a 2011 documentary, Rhodes recalled ""the magnificent Christmases that Marsh put on for her friends' children. In his final year of secondary school, Christ's College, Christchurch, Rhodes was selected for the New Zealand Youth Choir, where his musical potential was first identified. Following a relatively short period of formal lessons, he was entered into the 1986 Dame Sister Mary Leo Scholarship competition, which he won. He"
"""Kiwis love crime fiction, but what about our own?"" for ""Booknotes"" magazine saying that New Zealand had great crime writers who were not being supported locally, by bookstores, literary festivals, or awards, and it was time that changed. After discussions with many people in the New Zealand book industry, Sisterson decided to launch the Ngaio Marsh Award at the Christchurch Writers Festival in 2010, honouring both contemporary crime writers and New Zealand's most famous mystery writer in her own hometown. He sought and received the blessing of Dame Ngaio Marsh's closest living relative to honour Dame Ngaio by using her"
"Ngaio Marsh Theatre (TV series) Ngaio Marsh Theatre was a 1977 television miniseries which adapted four of the author's Inspector Roderick Alleyn detective novels for New Zealand television. The British actor George Baker starred in the title role. The series adapted three Alleyn novels that were set in New Zealand (""Vintage Murder"", ""Colour Scheme"", and ""Died in the Wool"") along with the London-set ""Opening Night"". The last mentioned featured a major character from New Zealand coming to England to work in the theatre. The series was originally screened on Television New Zealand. A later broadcast on PBS in the United"
"biographer Joanne Drayton. ""I think Ngaio Marsh wanted the freedom of being who she was in a world, especially in a New Zealand that was still very conformist in its judgments of what constituted ‘decent jokers, good Sheilas, and ‘weirdos'"", Roy Vaughan wrote after meeting her on a P&O Liner. In 1965 she published an autobiography, ""Black Beech and Honeydew"". British author and publisher 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. Towards the end of her life she"
"was popular at English weekend parties. After reading a detective story by Christie or Sayers on a wet Saturday afternoon in London she wondered if she could write something in the genre and bought six exercise books and a pencil at a local stationers. This novel was adapted for the television series ""The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries"", with the most notable change being that the Angela North character was replaced by Agatha Troy, who appears in later novels as Alleyn's romantic interest. A Man Lay Dead A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first"
"on the author's behalf. The second presentation of the Ngaio Marsh Award was made following the ""Setting the Stage for Murder"" event held as part of the Christchurch Arts Festival in August 2011, which also included appearances by New York Times bestselling authors Tess Gerritsen and John Hart. At the event, acclaimed television screenwriter and playwright Greg McGee made his first appearance after revealing himself as Alix Bosco, the winner of the inaugural award, in a national newspaper in the lead-up to the 2011 Award. The third presentation was during an event at the 2012 Christchurch Writers Festival, which was"
"Dame Ngaio's famous visage in mother-of-pearl on a black velvet covered partially open book. From 2013, the winners have received a framed plaque bearing the award logo, a selection of Ngaio Marsh novels, and a cash prize. In 2016, a second category was added for debut crime novels, the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel, and in 2017 a new award for true crime and other non fiction writing was added, the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Non Fiction. Following the postponement of the inaugural event when the biennial Christchurch Writers Festival was cancelled in 2010, the Award has"
"two awards, one for best crime novel and one for best first novel. The eighth presentation of the Ngaios was made at Scorpio Books in Christchurch on 28 October 2017, as part of a cocktail function followed by a literary pub quiz. The finalists will be celebrated and winners announced at special event on 1 September 2018 as part of the 2018 WORD Christchurch Festival. The finalists for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Awards are: Ngaio Marsh Award The Ngaio Marsh Awards (formerly Ngaio Marsh Award), popularly called the Ngaios, are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence"
"The Nursing Home Murder The Nursing Home Murder (1935) is a work of detective fiction by New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh. The British Home Secretary, Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP, has received several death threats from anarchists affiliated with Stalinist Communism - and a pleading letter threatening suicide from Jane Harden, a nurse with whom he had a short affair some months earlier. O'Callaghan's old friend and family physician, Sir John Phillips, visits to ask about O'Callaghan's relationship with Jane. She is Phillips's scrub nurse and Phillips has loved her from afar for years. O'Callaghan brutally informs Phillips that Jane is"
"Opening Night (novel) Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States as Night at the Vulcan. The novel is one of the theatrical ones for which Marsh was best known, and concerns the murder of an actor backstage on opening night of a new play in London. The play is being performed at the Vulcan Theatre; it was formerly known as the Jupiter Theatre, renamed after an infamous murder recounted in the Alleyn short story ""I Can"
"traditional detective novel, which often featured a police officer as protagonist. By and large, the better known novelists such as Ngaio Marsh produced work that falls more squarely into the province of the traditional or ""cozy"" detective novel. Nevertheless, some of the work of authors less well known today, like Freeman Wills Crofts's novels about Inspector French or some of the work of the prolific team of G.D.H. and Margaret Cole, might be considered as the antecedents of today's police procedural. British mystery novelist and critic Julian Symons, in his 1972 history of crime fiction, ""Bloody Murder"", labeled these proto-procedurals"
"Colour Scheme Colour Scheme is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943. The novel takes place in New Zealand during World War II; the plot involves suspected Nazi activity at a hot springs resort on the coast of New Zealand's Northland region and a gruesome murder whose solution exposes the spies. Alleyn himself is working for military intelligence in their counterespionage division. Marsh's next novel ""Died in the Wool"" also concerns Alleyn's counterespionage work in New Zealand. ""Colour Scheme"" was one of four Alleyn novels adapted"
"Can Find My Way Out"", and he appears in ""Opening Night"" as a police constable attached to the CID. ""Opening Night"" was one of four Alleyn novels adapted for New Zealand television in 1977 as Ngaio Marsh Theatre; Alleyn was played by George Baker. Opening Night (novel) Opening Night is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States as Night at the Vulcan. The novel is one of the theatrical ones for which Marsh was best known, and concerns the"
"A Man Lay Dead A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934. The plot concerns a murder committed during a detective game of murder at a weekend party in a country house. Although there is a side-plot focused on Russians, ancient weapons, and secret societies, the murder itself concerns a small group of guests at Sir Hubert Handesley's estate. The guests include Sir Hubert's niece (Angela North), Charles Rankin (a 46- or 47-year-old man about town), Nigel Bathgate (Charles's cousin and a"
"in New Zealand but continues in London. In 2018, HarperCollins Publishers released ""Money in the Morgue"" by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy. The book was started by Marsh during World War II, but abandoned. Working with just the book's title, first three chapters and some notes—but no idea of the plot or motive of the villain—Duffy completed the novel, which has received widespread praise for its authenticity and seamless transition between the two authors' work. Marsh's great passion was the theatre. In 1942 she produced a modern-dress ""Hamlet"" for the Canterbury University College Drama Society (now University of Canterbury Dramatic"
"States was the first American screening of a New Zealand television drama. Local actors who appeared in the series included Terence Cooper, Don Selwyn and Ian Watkin. Ngaio Marsh Theatre (TV series) Ngaio Marsh Theatre was a 1977 television miniseries which adapted four of the author's Inspector Roderick Alleyn detective novels for New Zealand television. The British actor George Baker starred in the title role. The series adapted three Alleyn novels that were set in New Zealand (""Vintage Murder"", ""Colour Scheme"", and ""Died in the Wool"") along with the London-set ""Opening Night"". The last mentioned featured a major character from"
"Night Tourist"", winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, and its sequel, ""The Twilight Prisoner"", which are both set in New York City. Katherine Marsh Katherine Marsh (born November 11, 1974) is a writer of children's fantasy literature, most notably ""The Night Tourist"", and an editor of nonfiction articles. She was a high school teacher before moving to New York City, where she began writing for magazines such as ""Rolling Stone"" and ""Good Housekeeping"". Some of her nonfiction stories about her home state of New York have appeared in the ""New York Times"". She is now the"
"Dead Water (novel) Dead Water is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-third novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1964. The plot concerns a murder in a small coastal village, where a local spring believed to have miraculous healing properties is enriching many of the local residents who cater to those seeking healing they can't find elsewhere. Miss Emily Pride, an old teacher of Alleyn's, inherits the place from her sister and comes to inspect her new property with plans to stop what she considers to be the vulgar exploitation of gullible and"
"Katherine Marsh Katherine Marsh (born November 11, 1974) is a writer of children's fantasy literature, most notably ""The Night Tourist"", and an editor of nonfiction articles. She was a high school teacher before moving to New York City, where she began writing for magazines such as ""Rolling Stone"" and ""Good Housekeeping"". Some of her nonfiction stories about her home state of New York have appeared in the ""New York Times"". She is now the managing editor of ""The New Republic"" Magazine, where she specializes in politics and culture. She now lives in Washington, DC. She is the author of ""The"
"the Crime Club also issued all the remaining works of Ngaio Marsh to be published (starting with ""Overture to Death"") as well as many of the volumes of such 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' writers such as John Rhode and Freeman Wills Crofts. U.S. writers such as Hulbert Footner and, later, Rex Stout were also well represented. Wartime paper shortages hit the Crime Club badly. From 1942, it announced on its dustwrappers that they were no longer able to issue quarterly newsletters. The page count of its books reduced from an average of 252–280 pages down to 160–192 with smaller"
"When in Rome (novel) When in Rome is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1970. The novel takes place in Rome, and concerns a number of murders among a group of tourists visiting the city; much of the action takes place in the ""Basilica di San Tommaso"", which bears some resemblance to the Basilica of San Clemente, which the author visited 'when in Rome' on an Italian holiday in Summer 1968. Marsh made extensive enquiries into forensic details and Italian police procedure, with which she admitted"
"Death in Ecstasy Death in Ecstasy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fourth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1936. When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member"
"Spinsters in Jeopardy Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1954. The novel takes place in the countryside of France, where Alleyn is vacationing with Agatha Troy, now his wife, and their son Ricky; it concerns an unusual and sinister plot which is perpetrated against travelling spinsters. The novel was published in the United States in 1953 (by Little Brown of Boston, her usual American publisher) and in 1955 in an abridged edition titled ""The Bride of Death"" (by Spivak of New York)"
"Spinsters in Jeopardy Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1954. The novel takes place in the countryside of France, where Alleyn is vacationing with Agatha Troy, now his wife, and their son Ricky; it concerns an unusual and sinister plot which is perpetrated against travelling spinsters. The novel was published in the United States in 1953 (by Little Brown of Boston, her usual American publisher) and in 1955 in an abridged edition titled ""The Bride of Death"" (by Spivak of New York)"
"Writers Guild. He admitted in 2011 to being the pseudonymous writer Alix Bosco who has written two highly successful crime novels, one of which won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime in 2010. McGee writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Alix Bosco as he also writes in a variety of other media, and wanted to keep his crime-writing persona separate. In August 2009 Alix Bosco's first thriller novel, ""Cut & Run"", was published in New Zealand by Penguin Books and won the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2010. The novel is the first in"
"screenwriter and playwright Greg McGee in the lead-up to the 2011 Award. The launch of the Award, and New Zealand crime writing in general, was featured in major newspapers and magazines in New Zealand, including the ""Sunday Star-Times"", the ""Herald on Sunday"", and the ""New Zealand Listener"". For the first three years of the Award, the winner received a distinctive handcrafted trophy designed and created by New Zealand sculptor and Unitec art lecturer Gina Ferguson, a full set of Ngaio Marsh novels, and a cash prize provided by the Christchurch Writers Festival Trust. The trophy depicted an artistic rendering of"
"crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir presented the Award. Sigurdardottir became a judge of the Ngaios from 2015. The inaugural presentation was made in Christchurch after a standalone crime panel featuring two of the three finalists, Neil Cross and Vanda Symon, local crime writer Paul Cleave, and chaired by Sisterson. The third finalist, Alix Bosco, did not attend as it was a pseudonym for a ""successful writer in other media"" who wanted to keep their identity a secret. Bosco's debut thriller, CUT & RUN, was announced as the winner at the conclusion of the event, with representatives from publisher Penguin NZ accepting"