Support the Court tonight with Ngaio Marsh – Crime Queen

Fans of classic crime fiction, of film and of the Court Theatre should all turn out for tonight’s fundraising screening of Ngaio Marsh – Crime Queen (Monday 26 September).

Hosted by Peter Elliott as Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn, there will be a Q & A for 20 minutes with the film makers after the showing and a full compendium of Ngaio Marsh’s 32 detective stories and a signed copy of Joanne Drayton’s biography of Ngaio Marsh will be raffled on the night.

All funds raised will go to the Court Theatre’s fundraising appeal for “The Shed”.

This event is on at The Aurora Centre (corner of Greers Road and Memorial Avenue), at 7.30. tonight. Tickets are $25.00 and will be on sale at the door.

For more:

• Read our page on Ngaio Marsh
• Search our BiblioCommons catalogue  for Ngaio Marsh
• Images of Ngaio Marsh in our collection
• View our photos of Ngaio’s house

Communications and Mass Media Collection: getting your point across

We all need reasonable communication skills to get through our lives.  Some people need these skills to be sharper than most like:

• Writers
• Journalists, editors and publishers
• Marketing and public relations professionals
• Graphic artists and advertisers
• Students of all the above!

With information from journals, books, and multimedia, there is a solution to any communication type question asked – from Facebook privacy issues to punctuation rules – this resource can help.

Communications and Mass Media Collection and many other  electronic resources can be found in the Source.

Access this from home with your library card number and PIN, or at our open community libraries.