New Zealand Writer To Return Home

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 15

New Zealand Writer To Return Home

Returning to New Zealand by the Rangitane next month, Miss Ngaio Marsh, of Christchurch, who has won a prominent placo among writers of detective fiction, will arrive with not only the laurels gained for her by her en-thusiastically-reviewed new novel, “Artists in Crime," but also, she hopes, the draft of still another book, ‘ 1 Death Goes Dancing," which she has already begun in collaboration with Mrs Tahu Rhodes, states an exchange. The latter novel will deal with the London season and all tho technicalities and ceremonial which surround the comingout of a debutante. Mrs Rhodes, whose elder daughter recently came out, has been able to supply invaluable detail on the subject. “Artists in Crime" is the sixth of the well-known scries which has shown steadily-increasing sales, and once again features that favourite of mystery fiction. Detective-Inspector Alleyn. Miss Marsh is not certain how long she will spend in New Zealand, or when she will be able to return London, which, she declares, is the most comfortable j)l acG j- 11 the world to work in. During her year's visit she has spent some time in Germany and In the South of France.