Ngaio Marsh comments on detective novels, 1947-08-21

New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh is interviewed by an unidentified woman about current trends in crime-writing and comments that the character of the detective novels is changing.

She says readers now want more three-dimensional characters.
She calls her genre a 'queer, circumscribed and isolated form of fiction.'

She says while the detective novel is changing into something else, the interest in murder mysteries will never die out.

She lists six of her favourite authors of detective novels: Conan Doyle, Austin Freeman, Marjorie Allingham, Michael Innes, Agatha Christie and Carter Dixon. She singles out "Hamlet, Revenge!" by Michael Innes as particularly good.

[Partially repeated on side 2]