Ngaio Marsh Interviewed
NE of the nicest things about the interview between Ngaio Marsh and Patricia Guest, Over My Dead Body (apart from the title), was that it revealed Miss Marsh (who, on the score of achievement, must be regarded as an awesome figure), as a thoroughly nice woman. Miss Guest, was, I thought, a little on the snooty side, being perhaps a thought patronising about Freeman Wills Crofts and almost openly disparaging the fecund talent of Agatha Christie. Miss Marsh, on the other hand, was firm in refusing to allow herself to be drawn on to any elevated critical promontory, respecting both the omnivorous appreciation of the thriller addict and the feelings of her fellow craftsmen. The interview was, like even a_ successful bike-hike, pedestrian in spots, but it got places. I was particularly grateful for Miss Marsh’s gossipy account of goingse
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B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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150Ngaio Marsh Interviewed New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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