Edith Nayo Marsh is a New Zealand writer and theatrical figure. Lady Edith Nayo Marsh, along with Agatha Christie, is recognized as one of the queens of the British detective.
Edith Marsh was born April 23, 1895 in Christchurch. Her father worked at a local bank. He was a cheerful person, he did not pay attention to troubles. Mother loved to play amateur performances. Since theater troupes from England very often came to Zealand, the girl was taken to performances.
Literary calling
Nayo was taught piano and drawing. The music was not working out, but painting for many years has become a favorite pastime of the future famous writer. Loved the girl riding a pony presented to her. After graduating from Margaret College, Nayo went to study at the University of Canterbury at the Faculty of Arts. The student seriously thought about the career of the artist.
She continued to play in productions. At twelve, the young writer created a small poetic play, Cinderella. She later wrote essays for the newspaper. In 1920, a theater under the direction of Alan Wilkie arrived on tour in the city. Since the girl fell in love with Shakespeare's work from school, quotes and associations with his works are found in all her works.
The march conquered the play of artists. The girl herself created the play "Medallion". The motifs of many great writers alternated in the narrative and there were many fights. The writer risked her creation to show Wilkie. He made sensible remarks, suggesting that a talented debutant will continue to create. The girl was invited to join the troupe. Parents did not resist.
The first detective story was written by accident. Marsh read a book about the murder game. Suddenly, the idea came to write about a situation where the murder will happen in reality. Only the character of the detective remained. He received the name Roderick Alleyn. The aristocrat, thinker, scholar began to act when he was under forty.
He did not change over fifty novels. Usually all heroes are bachelors. Alleyn had a wife, artist Agatha Troy. In her image, the writer encrypted some of her own traits. Even the outwardly shy and thin tall lady in trousers noticeably reminded the contemporaries of the author of the work.
Marsh herself never married, she did not have a single child. Personal life was carefully hidden from strangers. Marsh heroes often quarrel, but in marriage they are happy. Agatha plays the role of Watson, sometimes transferring this role to journalist Nigel Busgate.
Features of creativity
Alleyn is well versed in art, particularly theater. But he is a living person, not immune from mistakes. True, he covers up doubts with impassivity. The debut novel was called The Murder Game. Since its release in 1934, it has become successful. The following year, a new book was completed with the title "Killer, Your Way Out."
The march annually released new compositions. The failure occurred only during the Second World War. For half a month, Nayo worked as a driver, transporting the wounded on a hospital bus.
All books of the March are emphasized theatrical. The plays are reminiscent of the list of characters at the beginning, and the ending is called the last act. Since the writer in the theater learned to desire everything, including the creation of the scenery, she turned out to be a good director as well. The author of the detectives became a kind of demiurge-creator of reality. The march was interested not so much in the details of the killings as in the living characters of the characters.
Works to a large extent in theatrical conditional. The author offers a kind of game, the rules of which are agreed in advance. So, in the novel "At every step of the constable" a gang of international falsifiers of works of art gathers on a small steamer.
Marsh inherited the cloak that, according to legend, once wore the famous Keane. Later, the writer gave it to Laurence Olivier. In the fall of 1928, Marsh went to visit England. She did not think about literature, spending time in social life and opening a small company with her friend.
