Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh7/1/2023 This story begins when Bathgate, bored on a rainy night, slips into the services of the House of the Sacred Flame, down the street from his flat. His crime investigation team includes Detective-Inspector Fox and his fingerprint expert Detective-Sergeant Bailey. Her main character was Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentlemanly and understated detective whose “Watson” is a newspaperman, Nigel Bathgate. Summary: Nigel Bathgate happens upon the strange religious rites at the House of the Sacred Flame just in time to witness the death of Cara Quayne, the Chosen Vessel, when she imbibes a chalice of wine laced with cyanide.įelony & Mayhem Press has been re-printing the Roderick Alleyn mysteries by legendary mystery writer, Ngaio Marsh, one of the “Queens of Crime,” along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. New York: Felony & Mayhem, 2012 (originally published in 1936). Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn #4), Ngaio Marsh.
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