18 Jul 2024

'Queen of Crime's' mysteriously missing jag

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 18 July 2024

New Zealand's 'Queen of Crime', mystery author Dame Ngaio Marsh, had a penchant for classic cars.

Dame Ngaio, a writer in the so-called 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' - among the likes of Agatha Christie - died 42 years ago.

Her classic cars scattered to the wind, and now the Ngaio Marsh Trust and historian and author of Classic Jaguars New Zealand, Richard Waugh, are trying to track one of them down - 1950 Jaguar Mark V Drophead Coupe.

A close up of the Jaguar statue on the eponymous cars bonnet.

Photo: PxHere