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Ngaio Marsh was part of that golden age of crime writing, her books appearing alongside those of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers. Her novels have survived the years and are still in print.

Ngaio Marsh was a direct descendant of the de Marescos, piratical Lords of Lundy, and granddaughter of Empire pioneers in New Zealand, where she was born, in Christchurch, on 23 April