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Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village is a social service facility in Christchurch City, Canterbury. Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village is situated nearby to the parks Papanui Stream Esplanade and Erica Playground .
- She Was A Queen of Crime.
- Her First Advance Was Just £30.
- Four of Her Novels Are Set in New Zealand.
- She Loved Unusual Murder Methods.
- Her Birth Name Was Edith.
- She Wrote An Updated Version of Hamlet.
- She Also Wrote An Autobiography.
- Her Novels Were Adapted For Tv.
- You Can Visit Her Home in Cashmere, Christchurch.
During the Golden Age of British detective fiction — circa the 1920s and ’30s — Dame Ngaio Marsh was dubbed one of the ‘Queens of Crime,’ along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. The American crime writer and literary critic, herself a maven of hardboiled noir novels, called Marsh ‘a writer’s writer’ in recognition of M...
Her debut — a country house mystery called A Man Lay Dead — was published in 1934 (the same year as Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express) and introduces her recurring detective character Roderick Alleyn. A real murder is committed during a murder game during a weekend party. During the game, the lights to out, a gong is struck, and boom!s...
Dame Ngaio divided her time between England and New Zealand, writing 32 novels between 1934 and 1982. Four of them are set in her homeland. Two on the North Island: Vintage Murder (a theater impresario is murdered with a giant bottle of champagne) and Colour Scheme (an unpopular fellow meets his demise in a boiling natural mud bath), and two on the...
As you can see from the brief descriptions above, Dame Ngaio was quite creative with her means of offing her victims. Her MOs include an umbrella handle fitted with a deadly needle, a skewer through the eye, a gunshot set off by stepping on the pedal of a piano, various poisons — including prussic acid in a ritual cup of wine and a poison added to ...
Although Marsh was born in 1895, her parents never registered her birth until five years later. By then, they’d supposedly forgotten the actual date of her birth. So Dame Ngaio decided to celebrate her birthday on the same day as William Shakespeare’s: 23 April. She also decided to use her middle name Ngaio, rather than Edith, the first name given ...
In addition to fiction writing, Dame Ngaio had a life-long love affair with the theater. Her mother was an actress, and her father was a bank clerk by day, an amateur actor by night. Throughout her school years, Ngaio wrote and acted in plays, eventually traveling with a vaudeville show. In 1943, she wrote and produced a modern-dress version of Sha...
Although by all accounts, Dame Ngaio was a fiercely private person, she wrote an autobiography called Black Beech and Honeydewthat recounts her childhood and adolescence in Christchurch, as well as the start of her careers in the theater and as a novelist. Don’t expect juicy details, however; it’s not introspective nor filled with oversharing. Towa...
In the late 1970s, four of Dame Ngaio’s novels — Vintage Murder, Colour Scheme, Died in the Wool, and a_Opening Night_ — were adapted for a New Zealand TV series that also eventually aired in the US on PBS. It was called Ngaio Marsh Theatre and starred British actor George Baker as Inspector Roderick Alleyn. You can watch Died in the Wool, the one ...
Marsh’s family home at ‘37 Valley Road, Cashmere, off Sherwood Lane’ was purchased by her father in 1904; Dame Ngaio lived there from the age of 10 until her death in 1982 at the age of 86. The house is now a museumthat’s open to the public with interiors lovingly restored to look ‘as if Ngaio has just popped out to the shops.’ Over the years, Dame...
Jun 17, 2024 · Bowling green, Mini Golf Course, Croquet lawn, Award winning gardens, Village Community centre, Close to Northlands Mall. Updated: 17 Jun 2024
Online booking system is now live. Just in time for the summer season, you can now book and pay for a tour of Ngaio Marsh House, and purchase our gift vouchers, via our website through our new online booking system.
Ngaio Marsh Village is conveniently located near Northlands Mall in Papanui and just up the road from the popular suburb of Merivale offering boutique shopping, eateries, cafés, and supermarkets. Surrounded by award winning gardens, this village provides a tranquil setting alongside a warm and welcoming community.
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Ngaio Marsh spent most of her life in Christchurch, despite long periods in England. A prolific and hugely successful writer of crime fiction; paperbacks, hardbacks and radio serials of her work amounted to a small industry. Yet Marsh was also a major figure in New Zealand theatre.
