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She wrote many articles and short stories, which continued after her return to England in 1929, and her first novel, Ankle Deep, was published in 1931 by Hamish Hamilton. Angela travelled to Australia with her second husband, George Lancelot Allnut Thirkell, and began writing in Melbourne initially to earn money. She was the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones, the first cousin once removed of Rudyard Kipling, and the goddaughter of Peter Pan author JM Barrie. In the New York Times’ obituary of Rule, William Grimes wrote ‘in a crowded field, she consistently led the pack, taking up most of the real estate in the true crime shelves of bookstores’.Īngela Thirkell (1890-1961) was born in England to a culturally distinguished family. Her subjects were often what she described as ‘antiheros’ – ‘attractive, brilliant, charming, popular, wealthy, talented, and much admired in their communities – but really hiding behind masks.’ Much of her detailed, laborious studies were driven by questioning what led people to criminal behavior, and the psychology behind their horrific crimes. Rule continued to write about murder cases, predominantly in the Pacific Northwest, from Small Sacrifices (1983) to Practice to Deceive (2013), until her death in 2015.

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Rule conducted a series of jailhouse interviews with Bundy, as well as detailing police procedures and years of geographically dispersed law enforcement efforts. She later described him as ‘a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain and the control he had over his victims’.

Bundy was personally known to Ann, and she considered him both a colleague and a friend before his crimes were revealed.

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[In 1989, she was honoured with a stamp by the New Zealand post as part of their authors series and, in 2015, Google created a Doodle in her memory.Īmerican true crime writer Ann Rule (1931-2015) is best known for her bestselling debut book on serial killer Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, published in 1980, the year of his conviction. Marsh spent much of her life in Britain and was appointed a Dame in 1966 for services to the arts. As well as the Alleyn stories, Marsh wrote five plays, numerous short stories, non-fiction books and articles, and even a handful of songs. The theatre and art world provide the backdrop for many of Marsh’s novels, which are influenced by her own experiences studying painting and producing theatre in New Zealand. She is credited with helping to elevate the detective story to the level of respected literary fiction, combining elegant literary style with deftly observed characters, cleverly constructed puzzles and credible social settings. Marsh is best known for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, a ‘gentleman detective’ who appears in all 32 of her novels. ILP has already acquired Margery Allingham’s estate and is building a significant position in crime writers, alongside other genres. Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) is one of New Zealand’s best-known authors, and one of the four original ‘Queens of Crime’ – female writers who dominated the genre in the 1920s and 30s – alongside Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Cain, and demonstrate the breadth of the businesses’ global expansion, originating as they do from New Zealand, the US and the UK. These three important estates, all from female authors, join a growing number of significant properties and estates already owned and managed by ILP, including Georges Simenon and James M.

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International Literary Properties (ILP) has added three new acclaimed and award-winning literary estates to its rapidly growing portfolio a majority interest in the literary estate of Dame Ngaio Marsh, DBE a majority interest in the literary estate of Ann Rule and full ownership of the literary works of Angela Thirkell.

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