Marianne MacDonald

Marianne MacDonald (* 9. July 1934 in Kenora , Ontario ) is a Canadian children's author , crime novelist and playwright .

Life

Marianne MacDonald grew up in Winnipeg and Montreal . She studied at McGill University and the University of Oxford . She then embarked on an academic career, teaching at the universities of Toronto , Keele and Middlesex . She gave up the academic career in favor of writing. Today she lives in the London Borough of Haringey with her husband, with whom she has two sons .

Create

Marianne MacDonald published her first children's book at the age of 16 and is still working as a children's author to this day. Since 1996 she has published a number of detective novels, the protagonist of which is the antiquarian and single mother Dido Hoare. So far (2011) this cycle has grown to eight volumes; In addition to Sabine Schwabe and Lilian Goedefrey-Greeven, Marie Hahn was responsible for the translations into German.

In her antiquarian bookstore, Dido Hoare repeatedly comes across shady characters and historical manuscripts who are involved in criminal cases. Dido's father Barnabas Hoare, a former intelligence officer and professor emeritus of English literature, helps her with the investigation. Other regular characters include Dido's sister Pat, the nanny Phyllis Digby and the student Ernie Weekes. Although the individual novels are self-contained, there are also storylines that run through the entire series.

MacDonald's drama Liar Liar premiered at London's Etcetera Theater in 1992.

Works (selection)

Children's books

• Black Bass Rock . Macmillan, New York 1952.
• The Pirate Queen . Orchard Books, London 1991, ISBN 1-85213-645-6 .
• The Eighty-Nine Pennies of Emma Jones . Heinemann, London 1992, ISBN 0-434-96109-4 .
• The Witch Repair . Heinemann, London 1995, ISBN 0-434-96793-9 .
• Dragon for Sale . Troll Books, London 1998, ISBN 0-8167-4340-1 .

Dido Hoare cycle

• The manuscript ("Death's Autograph", 1996). New edition List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-60351-3 .
• The scroll ("Ghost Walk", 1997). List, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-68024-0 .
• The last stanza ("Smoke Screen", 1999). New edition List, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-548-60512-5 .
• A good hiding place ("Road Kill", 2000). List, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-68053-4 .
• Blood is thicker than water ("Blood Lies". 2001). New edition List, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-548-60619-9 .
• The regular customer ("Die Once", 2002). List, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-548-60657-1 .
• Dirty business ("Three Monkey", 2005). List, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-548-68073-9 .
• Death between the lines ("Faking it", 2006). List, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-60815-0 .

drama

• Liar Liar . London 1992.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marianne MacDonald in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marianne MacDonald on the crime couch
• The Dido Hoare Mysteries Web Site