I would not personally reject all Marsh for Death in Ecstasy, not least because she is dead and you can get her easily second-hand and help Oxfam without financially supporting her views. (I've given up David Roberts because he is alive, and I can't feel comfortable about giving him money because I find his political and "moral" views so vile.) Death in Ecstasy is early and demented and atypically schlocky, and Marsh's views are not always enlightened and sometimes far from it (I recommend staying far, far away from Singing in the Shrouds). On the other hand, she can be really fascinating about women and I love the Troy/Alleyn romance and the way that she has Alleyn completely accepting that Troy is brilliant and far more famous and worthy than him, and that Troy remains skittish about the whole romance thing years after they've married. But then, I tend to think that we all have a supply of clothespegs for our noses, and can wear them for some authors and not for others. If Marsh isn't for you, well, she isn't so brilliant that you're missing something unbearable to miss.

I cannot stand Patrick Merrick!