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Subtitle: papers from a centenary symposium on Ngaio Marsh, 1895-1995, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1996
By: edited by Carole Acheson and Carolyn Lidgard
Publisher: Centre for Continuing Education, University of Canterbury
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Christchurch, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Congresses; New Zealand Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; New Zealand Authors
Notes: Ten papers.

Contributions by: Lauris Edmond, Elric Hooper, Peter Downes, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Julie King & Vicki Hernshaw, Jeni Curtis, Bruce Harding, Carole Acheson, Paul Bushnell, Howard McNaughton.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Immortal longings: Ngaio Marsh's voice in New Zealand history / Lauris Edmond; title: Ngaio Marsh: a life for the theatre / Elric Hooper; title: The Pollards / Peter Downes; title: Formative stages: Ngaio Marsh, the church and the theatre / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki; title: Painting in a writer's landscape / Julie King & Vicki Hearnshaw; title: Queens of crime: Ngaio Marsh and women's detective fiction / Jeni Curtis; title: The great and true amphibian: the New Zealand-England polarity in the fiction of Ngaio Marsh / Bruce Harding; title: Ngaio Marsh's detective fiction: the test of time / Carole Acheson; title: The most ephemeral of the arts / Paul Bushnell; title: Alibi writing: myths of Ngaio / Howard McNaughton.