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Language English Publication date 1936 Originally published 1936 Preceded by The Nursing Home Murder Genre Detective fiction | 3.7/5 Goodreads Series Roderick Alleyn Media type Print () Followed by Vintage Murder Publisher Geoffrey Bles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Contents
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.
Radio adaptation
A dramatisation by John Tidyman of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in September 1969, with Peter Howell as Alleyn and Gary Watson as Nigel Bathgate.