Death In Ecstasy

Ngaio Marsh

Oct 2015 · Inspector Alleyn Book 4 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by James Saxon

About this audiobook

Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide. In investigating her death he finds the High Priest and his followers are more enmeshed is the earthly passions of lust and jealousy than they would like to imagine. It may hail from the 'golden age' of the whodunit, but Ngaio Marsh's Death in Ecstasy contains enough of the dark secrets of a ritualistic cult and the hidden depths of London's drug world to satisfy the modern reader.

About the author

Ngaio Marsh was born and educated in New Zealand. Along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers, she was deemed one of the four original 'Queens of Crime' - female British writers who dominated the crime fiction genre in the 1920s and 1930s. She was knighted a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966. Ngaio Marsh died in 1982. Death in Ecstasy was first published in 1936.