Marsh Remembered

Christchurch-born writer Dame Ngaio Marsh has been named one of the Daily Telegraph’s 50 favourite crime writers, with Vintage Murder (1937) recommended. Marsh is described as “a New Zealander who created a quintessentially English detective, the dishy Roderick Alleyn, who featured in 32 sparkling novels. Female fans’ hearts were broken when Alleyn eventually married.” She features alongside crime greats, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Ruth Rendell and Arthur Conan Doyle. Marsh died in Christchurch in 1982.