My friend Marc Alexander, who has died aged 90, was a poet and prolific novelist who wrote more than 70 books, as well as being a journalist and professional photographer.
His books, set in New Zealand, where he grew up, and Britain, had titles such as Haunted Inns (1973), Haunted Castles (1974), Phantom Britain (1975), The Outrageous Queens (1977), The Mist Lizard (1980), Royal Murder (1978) and Not After Nightfall (1985). The horror-thriller Plague Pit (1981), published under the nom de plume Mark Ronson, was a bestseller.
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