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The Ngaio Marsh Collection - Death in Ecstasy (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

By Ngaio Marsh
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Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.

Who slipped cyanide into the ceremonial wine of ecstasy at the House of the Sacred Flame? The other initiates and the High Priest claim to be above earthly passions. But Roderick Alleyn discovers that the victim had provoked lust and jealousy, and he suspects that more evil still lurks behind the Sign of the Sacred Flame…

Author: Ngaio Marsh
Format: ebook
Release Date: 03 Sep 2009
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-734443-7
Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966.