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Death in Ecstasy Author(s) Ngaio Marsh Language English Series Roderick Alleyn Genre(s) Detective fiction Publication date 1936 Media type Print () Preceded by The Nursing Home Murder Followed by Vintage Murder Death in Ecstasy is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fourth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1936.
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her death.
Roderick Alleyn books by Ngaio Marsh Novels A Man Lay Dead · Enter a Murderer · The Nursing Home Murder · Death in Ecstasy · Vintage Murder · Artists in Crime · Death in a White Tie · Overture to Death · Death at the Bar · Surfeit of Lampreys · Death and the Dancing Footman · Colour Scheme · Died in the Wool · Final Curtain · Swing Brother Swing · Opening Night · Spinsters in Jeopardy · Scales of Justice · Off With His Head · Singing in the Shrouds · False Scent · Hand in Glove · Dead Water · Death at the Dolphin · Clutch of Constables · When in Rome · Tied Up in Tinsel · Black As He's Painted · Last Ditch · Grave Mistake · Photo Finish · Light Thickens ·Categories:- Crime novel stubs
- Roderick Alleyn novels
- 1936 novels
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