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“The play’s the thing”, Sarah Ross
Ngaio Marsh’s Hamlet: The 1943 Production Script Polly Hoskins (ed) Canterbury University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781988503134 In August 1943, as New Zealand troops in Europe began the Italian campaign, the Canterbury University College Drama Society (CUCDS) performed Hamlet to sell-out…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Issue 128, Ngaio Marsh, Polly Hoskins, Sarah Ross, Summer 2019
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Plays, Review
The mystery writer, Murray Bramwell
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime Joanne Drayton HarperCollins, $59.99, ISBN 9781869506353 Whatever it was that impelled Ngaio Marsh, at the age of 36, to purchase six exercise books and a handful of pencils and go back to her cold…
Tagged with: HarperCollins, Issue 84, Joanne Drayton, Murray Bramwell, Ngaio Marsh, Summer 2008
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Boring murder to death, Michael Pearson
Off With His Head Ngaio Marsh HarperCollins, $15.95, ISBN 000 6169198 Sounds Easy — a New Zealand mystery Carol Dawber River Press, $16.95, ISBN 0959804129 Inside Dope Paul Thomas Hodder Moa Beckett, $17.95, ISBN 186958 1598 “Who cares?” has replaced…
Tagged with: Carol Dawber, HarperCollins, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 21, Michael Pearson, Ngaio Marsh, Paul Thomas, River Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Compact and elegant, Elric Hooper
Ngaio Marsh Margaret Lewis, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991, $29.95 This is more a meditation on a book than a detached and ruthless review. I must declare bias on two counts. First I was a pupil and latter-day friend of…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Elric Hooper, Issue 3, Margaret Lewis, Ngaio Marsh, Spring 1991
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
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