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Ngaio Marsh - by Joanne Drayton (Paperback)

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  • The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life.
  • About the Author: Joanne Drayton is Associate Professor in the Department of Design at UNITEC, Auckland, where she lectures in art history and theory.
  • 480 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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About the Book



The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.



Book Synopsis



The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.

While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one knows better how to cover tracks with red herrings and remove incriminating evidence than a crime fiction writer...

This fascinating biography of Ngaio Marsh pieces together both the public and private Marsh in a way that is as riveting as a crime novel. Through her writing and her theatre work, Joanne Drayton assembles the pieces to the puzzle that is Marsh, proving that life can be as thrilling as fiction. Marsh wrote her first detective novel in a London flat in the depths of the 1930s Depression, bringing life to Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn in her first book, A Man Lay Dead. Through 32 novels he would establish himself as one of the great super-sleuths, and Marsh as one of the four Queens of Golden Age detective fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham.

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 the world of publishing and her life as a stage director. In 1949 her writing would earn her the ultimate distinction when Penguin and Collins released the 'Marsh Million': 100,000 copies each of ten of her titles on to the world market. The popular appetite for classic whodunits was insatiable and Ngaio Marsh was one of the best. But her greatest love was the stage - or was it?



About the Author



Joanne Drayton is Associate Professor in the Department of Design at UNITEC, Auckland, where she lectures in art history and theory. Her critically acclaimed Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime was a Christmas pick of the Independent when it was released in the United Kingdom in 2009. She was awarded a National Library Fellowship in 2007 to write her biography of Marsh, and lives in Auckland with her partner and two cats.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.81 Inches (H) x 5.06 Inches (W) x 1.21 Inches (D)
Weight: .94 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Number of Pages: 480
Publisher: HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
Author: Joanne Drayton
Language: English
Street Date: September 3, 2009
TCIN: 90501535
UPC: 9780007328680
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-4907
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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