“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine Some people venture aboard a cruise ship looking for rest and relaxation. Others look for excitement and excursions. And then there’s the cocktail and casino seekers. When it comes to vacationing on the seven seas, there are…
Ngaio Marsh was not, at first blush, a racially insensitive writer. A queen of the golden age of detective fiction, Marsh published 32 novels featuring her upper class detective Roderick Alleyn. Her first book, A Man Lay Dead, was published in 1934; her last, Light Thickens, in 1982. Over a 50 year span, themes of…
In 1888, Henry Marsh, the oldest son of a large English family, immigrated to New Zealand, where he met New Zealand-born Rose Elizabeth Seager. Her father was a prominent public official. After they married, Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in the late 1890s in Christchurch, the largest city on the South Island. She was an…
