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)...
