Magdalen Nabb

Magdalen Nabb

Died recently, obits and probably elsewhere give a flavour of her work.

I am pleased to share a birth county, Lancashire, and a birth year with her, 1947. However, the real joy for me is her creation of Marshal Guarnaccia. He has given us so much pleasure. Italian crime before it was either profitable or popular, pace Leon and Dibdin. I really appreciated his ability to get into the humanity of the criminal and the crime.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi; as old mother church would have it!

With a name like that of course she had to be a left footer.