 Mystery: February 16, 2022 Issue [#11218] |
This week: Mystery Writer: Dame Ngaio Marsh Edited by: Sleigh Bells Adore ♥  
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| In this newsletter issue we are going to visit another of the great mystery writers of our age, and she is across the ocean from New Zealand we see the fantastic crime writer, theatre director, she is the GREAT Dame Ngacio Marsh. She was skilled in detective character writing, as she primarily is known as the “Queen of Crime”, along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham. The book that we will highlight this newsletter, “Final Curtain.” There’s more to her story, so let’s take a look at Dame Ngacio Marsh in this issue. |
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This newsletter will talk more about Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, the only child of Rose and Henry March a bank clerk, who sever saw much success like their child, Ngaio. Her name was derived from the idea that, “… New Zealand European children often received native names, and Ngaio could have either meant “light on the water or little tree bug.” It didn’t matter one bit because Nagio first tried her hand in theatre production in the between 1920 and by 1930, she tried very hard to become an actress and later in 1934, started on her career as a mystery detective writing.
Dame Ngaio Marsh was best known for her 32 detective novels which she published between 1934 and 1982. It was said that along with Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie, she was described as one of the four original “Queens of Crime” – female writers who were at the top of the crime fiction genre in the Golden Age of the 1920s and 1930s. All of her novels feature British CID detective Roderick Alleyn. She fell in love with London and her top detective is part of all things British.
Dame Ngaio Marsh wrote 32 detective novels and the one I spotlighted in this newsletter, “ Final Curtain”, was a huge success and features her main detective and his wife, Agatha Troy, a world famous painter. The story is situated around Troy finishing the portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, the Grand Old Man of the stage, and the old man is found dead. There is a cast of characters who all could have been involved in his passing and she weaves a tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Dame Ngaio Marsh lived until 1986 and died in the town of Christchurch in the place she was born. Her birthdate was not known because her father did not register her birth in the system until 1900. She never married and was rumored to live free lifestyle, having no husband or children. Her home was later turned into the Ngaio March House, in Cashmere, New Zealand.
I hope you check our more of her work.. she was quite a writer!
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This newsletter question of the week was from the newsletter from Jan 26, John Buchanan. In that newsletter, I asked the question what essay prize did John Buchanan win from Oxford in 1897?
John Buchan is said to have suffered from a specific type of ulcer in his early life and it was at this time that he wrote his best seller, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" while treating this condition. What type did he suffer from? There was ONE reader from this newsletter who answered the question. Her name is FÐ Spread the Christmas Joys  you will get two MBs your choosing for answering the questions this month. Send me an email with your choices dear.
Who was the Queen of Crime? Any reader who answers this question for my next newsletter on March 30th. See you then!
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