![]() In her partial draft, Marsh set up an intriguing mystery. I could not identify the point at which Duffy took over from Marsh Marsh, who died in 1982, wrote the first few chapters of this novel, and came up with the title Duffy has created the rest of the plot and completed the story. Marsh and Duffy’s collaboration, Money in the Morgue, falls firmly into the first category – which is why it must be called “Marsh and Duffy’s”. Paton Walsh’s subsequent Wimsey novels, however, were entirely invented by her, though they still feature Sayers’s great detective in a starring role. Thrones, Dominations (1998) was Paton Walsh’s finished version of an uncompleted Sayers manuscript. Sayers’s sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, has been continued by Jill Paton Walsh in both kinds. There are two species of continuation novel. ![]() Stella Duffy is also a New Zealand-born writer with an outstanding reputation and a passion for theatre. She gave many of her books theatrical settings and spent much of her time directing and acting her efforts helped her country establish its own theatre industry. Marsh was born in New Zealand, and her great passion, aside from writing, was the theatre. Photograph: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images ![]()
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