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Norman, Philip,
Douglas Lilburn: His life and music,
Christchurch, Canterbury University Press, 2006.

Olivier, Laurence,
Confessions of an Actor: An autobiography,
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982.

Orwell, George,
Decline of the English Murder: and other essays,
London, Penguin (first published 1946), 1965.

Poe, Edgar Allan,
Forty-Two Tales,
London, Octopus Books, 1979.

Poe, Edgar Allan,
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,
(ed. G.R. Thompson), New York, Harper & Row, 1970.

Poe, Edgar Allan,
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings,
(ed. David Galloway), London, Penguin, 2003.

Rahn, B.J. (ed.),
Ngaio Marsh: The woman and her work,
The Scarecrow Press, New Jersey and London, 1995.

Sayers, Dorothy,
A Matter of Eternity: Selections from the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers,
(ed. Rosamond Kent Sprague), London, A.R. Mowbray, 1973.

Sayers, Dorothy,
Creed or Chaos? Why Christians must choose either dogma or disaster (or, why it really does matter what you believe),
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940.

Sayers, Dorothy and Robert Eustace,
The Documents in the Case,
London, Victor Gollancz, 1935.

Sayers, Dorothy,
The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.

Sayers, Dorothy L.,
Whose Body?
New York, HarperCollins, 1995.

Seager, Madeleine,
Edward William Seager: Pioneer of mental health,
Waikanae, The Heritage Press, 1987.

Slate McDorman, Kathryne,
Ngaio Marsh,
Boston, Twayne, 1991.

Strachey, Lytton,
Eminent Victorians,
London, Bloomsbury, 1988.

Strange, Glyn,
The Little Theatre: Golden years of the New Zealand stage,
Christchurch, Clerestory Press, 2000.

Symons, Julian,
Bloody Murder—From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: a history,
London, Faber & Faber, 1972.

The Listener: Bedside Book,
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Thompson, Mervyn,
All My Lives,
Christchurch, Whitcoulls, 1980.

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Agatha Christie: A reader’s companion,
London, Aurum Press, 2006.

Winn, Dilys (ed.),
Murderess Ink: The better half of the mystery,
New York, Bell Publishing, 1979.

ARTICLES

Acheson, Carole, ‘Cultural ambivalence: Ngaio Marsh’s New Zealand detective fiction’,
Journal of Popular Culture,
19(2), 1985, pp. 149-73.

Chandler, Raymond, ‘The simple art of murder’,
The Atlantic Monthly,
Vol. CLXXIV, July-December 1944, pp. 53-59.

Dart, William, ‘A Unicorn for Christmas: A right royal opera’,
Music in New Zealand,
1988/89, Summer, pp. 6-13, 41.

‘Edward Seager—pioneer therapist’,
New Zealand Heritage,
Vol. 2, pp. 623-26.

Greener, Leslie, ‘Rhona Haszard’,
Art in New Zealand,
No. 17, September 1932, pp. 18-21.

Harding, Bruce, ‘In memoriam: Dame Ngaio Marsh 1899-1982’,
Landfall,
No. 142, June 1982, pp. 242-45.

Harding, Bruce, ‘Ngaio Marsh’, in
Mystery and Suspense Writers: The literature of crime, detection, and espionage,
Vol. 2, (ed. Robin W. Winks), New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998.

Harding, Bruce, ‘The New Zealand stories of Ngaio Marsh’,
Landfall,
No. 144, December 1982, pp. 447-60.

Hearnshaw, Vickie and Julie King, ‘Ngaio Marsh painting’,
Art New Zealand,
No. 78, Autumn 1996, pp. 76-79.

Hill, Richard S. ‘Worthington, Arthur Bently 1847-1917’,
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography,
updated 22 June 2007, URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/

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Independent Magazine,
September 1989, Vol. 56, pp. 50-53.

James, P.D., ‘From puzzle to novel’, from Reginald Hill and H.R.F. Keating (eds.),
Crime writers: Reflections on crime fiction,
London, BBC, 1978.

Mason, Bruce, ‘In memoriam: Dame Ngaio Marsh 1899-1982’,
Landfall,
No. 142, June 1982, pp. 241-42.

Mason, Bruce (ed.), ‘Brigid Lenihan’,
Act,
Wellington, Downstage Theatre, Nov/Dec 1970, pp. 6-9.

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NZ House & Garden,
April 1998, pp. 73-81.

McEldowney, Dennis,
‘Black Beech and Honeydew: An Autobiography.
Ngaio Marsh’,
Landfall,
No. 79, September 1966, pp. 294-96.

Norman, Julie, ‘Mystery writer shifts to
Othello:
portrait of Ngaio Marsh’,
Christian Monitor,
26 March 1949, p. 12.

Shadbolt, Maurice, ‘Dame Ngaio Marsh: Shakespearian Queen of Crime’,
Reader’s Digest,
Vol. 101, January 1973, pp. 34-39.

Stevens, Joan, ‘Ngaio Marsh: artist in crime’,
New Zealand Listener,
8 May 1972, p. 13, Reference No: 77-067-3/4, ATL, Wellington.

Thompson, Mervyn, ‘On the death of Ngaio Marsh’,
Landfall,
No. 144, December 1982, pp. 442-46.

Watt, J.O.P., ‘Ngaio Marsh novelist with versatile gifts’,
The Sunday Times,
25 January 1947, n.p., Reference No: 77-067-3/4, ATL, Wellington.

W.G.S., ‘Descended from pirates: Ngaio Marsh’,
Books and Bookmen,
June 1960, pp. 7-9.

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

Catchpole, Julie, ‘The Group’, MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1984.

Greene, Rosemary, ‘Ngaio, the Writer—As Seen From a Secretary’s Viewpoint’, speech given at the ‘Return to Black Beech: Centenary Symposium on Ngaio Marsh 1895-1995’, Christchurch, 1995, n.p.

Gibbs, Rowan and Richard Williams, ‘Ngaio Marsh: A bibliography’, Scunthorpe, 1990.

Harding, Bruce, ‘The Janus Problem: A search for patterns in life and fiction of Dame Ngaio Marsh’, MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1979.

James, P.D., ‘P.D., James on Ngaio Marsh’, an address given by the Baroness James of Holland Park on the centenary of Ngaio Marsh’s birth, London, 27 April 1995.

Pitts, Pricilla with Evelyn Page, extract from an interview conducted at the artist’s home in Thorndon, Wellington, May 1982.

INTERVIEWS

Bell, Brian, interview with author, Sydney, 3 October 2007.

Crabtree
(née
Mannings), Jean, interview with author, Tauranga, 26 August 2007.

Dacres-Mannings, John, interview with author, Sydney, 4 October 2007.

Douglass, Malcolm and Judie, interview with author, Christchurch, 14 July 2007.

Elsom, Jonathan, interview with author, Sydney, 6 October 2007.

Facer, Annette, interview with author, Warrington, 16 July 2007.

Farquhar, David, interview with Douglas Munro, Wellington, 25 May 2001.

Fox, Richard and Ginx, interview with author, Turangi, 9 December 2007.

Greene, Rosemary, interview with author, Christchurch, 11 July 2007.

Harding, Bruce, interview with author, Christchurch, 21 March 2007.

Harding, Bruce, voice recording, ‘Reflections on Ngaio Marsh (and interviews with Ngaio Marsh, 7 and 24 April 1978)’, Christchurch, 23 December 2007.

Hooper, Elric, interview with author, Christchurch, 21 March 2007.

Lascelles, Gerald, interview with author, Christchurch, 19 December 2007.

Laurie, Alison, interview with author, Paikakariki, 10 February 2008.

Mannings, Roy, interview with author, Tauranga, 8 February 2008.

McVeigh, Cilla, interview with author, Christchurch, 12 July 2007.

Munro, Donald, interview with author, Wellington, 22 November 2007.

Scott, Bob, interview with author, Auckland, 27 February 2007.

Walton, Deborah, interview with author, Renwick, 9 July 2007.

Webb (
née
Reay), Barbara, interview with author, Christchurch, 23 March 2007.

Wilkinson [Carter], Joy, interview with author, Golden Bay, 7 July 2007.

Wilson, Charlotte, interview with author, Wellington, 12 July 2006.

PERIODICALS

New Zealand Listener,
1940-1982.
Art in New Zealand,
1928-1947.

INTERNET WEBSITES

http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Christchurch/ Heritage/ChristchurchOverviewHistory

Project/Christchurch Overview History Draft Report, Part 06.pdf

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/Chronology/Year/1897.asp

Notes

AAG
Auckland Art Gallery

AF
Annette Facer

ATL
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.

BB Black Beech and Honeydew

CAG
Christchurch Art Gallery

DM
Doris McIntosh

DO
Dorothy Olding

EW
Elizabeth Walter

GL
Gerald Lascelles

HC
HarperCollins

JB
John Balfour

JE
Jonathan Elsom

JS
John Schroder

MB
Maureen Balfour

NCP
New Canterbury Pilgrim, articles for
The Press

NM
Ngaio Marsh

NZL New Zealand Listener

Chapter One
A Cradle in a Grave

13
[smell] of damp newsprint
NM, ‘Birth of a Sleuth’,
The Writer,
April 1977, p. 23.

14
I couldn’t put it down
BB,
p. 217.

16
Graham’s became the world’s
Haycraft,
Murder for Pleasure,
pp. 3-4.

17
After 18 years
Ibid, p. 29.

17
In fact, crime writer
Symons,
Bloody Murder,
p. 54.

18
Taking everything into consideration
Haycraft (ed.),
The Art of the Mystery Story,
p. 89.

18
I tried to get it published
Quoted in Hume,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab,
p. vii.

19
It is my belief, Watson
Conan Doyle,
The Complete Sherlock Holmes,
p. 138.

21
When I was dissatisfied
Quoted in Mann,
Deadlier Than the Male,
pp. 84-85.

25
the Fairy Godmother
Haycraft,
Murder for Pleasure,
p. xxi.

25
I thought it would be fun
‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’, 10 Mar 1978, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

25
attractive, civilised man
NM, ‘Birth of a Sleuth,’ p. 24.

26
When the moralists
Mann,
Deadlier Than the Male,
p. 209.

26
perfect specimen
‘A Passionate Affair: Ngaio Marsh’, 29 May 2001, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

26
she exemplifies
Mann,
Deadlier Than the Male,
pp. 221, 224, 226.

26
a looker on
‘Ngaio Marsh: London revisited’, 26 Sep 1949, BBC, British Sound Archives, British Library, London.

27
I guess I fell in love
‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’.

27
We were bewilderingly gay
BB,
p. 200.

28
bandwagon…‘rebore’ and fresh ‘coat of paint’
BB,
pp. 166, 197.

29
I know of no experience
NCP, 1 Sep 1928, p. 13.

29
a queer little backwater
Bowen,
Drawn from Life: A memoir,
Sydney, Picador, 1999, p. 4.

29
They are brilliantly painted
NCP,
1 Sep 1928, p. 13.

30
The audience at the opera
NCP, 22 Sep 1928, p. 13.

30
Australians who wanted
Ibid.

31
I remember Mr J H Curle’s contention
NCP,
20 Oct 1928, p. 13.

31
aboriginals who have seen
NCP, 22 Sep 1928, p. 13.

31
a grinning kaffir boy
NCP, 20 Oct 1928, p. 13.

32
There seems to have been no thought
BB,
p. 189.

32
old Curfew bell
NCP, 17 Nov 1928, p. 13.

32
Just before dawn
BB,
p. 195.

32
There is the same fascination here
NCP,
15 Dec 1928, p. 17.

33
This, Londoners say
Ibid.

33
As we gathered way
NCP, 18 May 1929, p. 15.

33
A domestic roulette
BB,
p. 204.

33
grey and nasty
NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

34
baby blues and pinks,
BB,
p. 206.

34
Roulette in extremis
NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

34
I usually start with a group of people
‘Dame Ngaio: Detective fiction writer’.

34
She is over middle-age
NCP, 22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

35
entirely new to me
BB,
p. 208.

35
We chose a table
Ibid, p. 207.

35
We separated
Ibid.

35
[Christchurch…rumours]
Information from conversations with Bruce Harding (21 Mar 2007) and Gerald Lascelles (22 Mar 2007).

35
[They] called us
NCP,
22 Dec 1928, p. 13.

35
I suddenly found
BB,
p. 209.

36
We are in the middle
NCP, 27 Apr 1929, p. 13.

36
thin morning mist
NCP,
25 May 1929, p. 15.

36
crammed with rich cars
NCP,
27 Apr 1929, p. 13.

36
some extremely humble job
BB,
p. 25.

36
The verger
NCP,
20 April 1929, p. 13.

37
richly turned-out automaton
NCP,
6 Jul 1929, p. 13.

37
The Sultan of Zanzibar
NCP, 17 Aug 1929, p. 13.

37
environs of Paris
NCP, 28 Sep 1929, p. 13.

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