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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm working my way through Ngaio Marsh's books at the moment - I've read the first five so far. Thus far I've not been terribly impressed; the stories seem a little superficial compared to Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. I'll stick with them - perhaps they get better as they go on?
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They do - once Troy comes on the scene, the characters get more rounded. Marsh was quite scathing about mystery stories, and she seems to have started writing almost as an 'anti-Christie', but as they became more successful, she seemed to become rather fonder of her characters.