Marsh, Ngaio. False Scent. Collins.
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Dedications | Ngaio Marsh | After this NM
dealt with bogus religion in Death in Ecstasy, 1936 (based on but heightening an actual scandal), the theatre world of New Zealand in Vintage Murder, 1937, (dedicated to Allan Wilkie |
Occupation | Ngaio Marsh | To help pay her way, NM
taught children in the mornings while she was still a student. During the 1920s in New Zealand she earned money acting, producing, painting, and writing. The Sun (an evening... |
Performance of text | Ngaio Marsh | She dedicated it: For Jemima with love. Marsh, Ngaio. False Scent. Collins. prelims |
Performance of text | Ngaio Marsh | NM
's mother
played the witch, and her grandfather Edward William Seager
made a present to her of two theatrical treasures: a book entitled Actors of the [Nineteenth] Century by Frederic White
and a shirt... |
Residence | Ngaio Marsh | She had been warmly invited by Tahu
and Nelly Rhodes
to stay with them in their house, Alderbourne Manor near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, and later at their two spacious flats in Eaton Mansions... |
Textual Features | Ngaio Marsh | NM
based the overpowering Lamprey family on an actual family of old friends who were a presence both in New Zealand and in England: Tahu Rhodes
and his wife Helen
or Nelly (a peer's daughter)... |
Textual Production | Ngaio Marsh | After her earliest years as a writer, NM
's dramatic writings were few. She collaborated on a three-act play, Exit Sir Derek, using some of the same material as The Nursing Home Murder... |
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