![]() ![]() She stayed there for several years, forging close connections with the Rhodes family, well to do Brits who had spent time in New Zealand in the early 1900s. ![]() She made her first trip to England in 1928, in her early thirties. On both sides of her family, she inherited memories and ideas about England as her point of origin, even though she lived half a world a way. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1895, to a father who had emigrated there from England as a young man, and a mother who had English parents. ![]() And as the Second World War kept her grounded in her hometown for a long period, those years informed what she would go on to write about her surroundings and her compatriots for years to come. Her fiction pulls in these two directions too, which is in part what makes it so interesting. She stretched herself between two very different worlds – the country of her birth, and the place where the golden age of detective fiction was in full swing. Today, our subject is a writer who had a very, very long publishing career, almost the longest of the queens of crime I’m talking about in this series. Lorac, Margery Allingham and Josephine Tey. If you haven’t listened to any of the previous episodes, you might want to go back and catch up after you’ve heard this one – so far I’ve covered Agatha Christie, E.C.R. This is another episode of Queens of Crime at War, a series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War. ![]()
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