It was a comment she cherished on the day she learned of his death, via an email to cast and crew while shooting the current series. Famously prickly, he paid her the compliment of telling her that she had made the character of Linda Hillier, Jack's journalist on-again-off-again lover better on the screen than his original.
Marta Dusseldorp only met crime writer Peter Temple once, at the wrap party for series one of Jack Irish.