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 ...
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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.
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This novel is about midway in the series featuring Roderick Allyne, or Handsome Allyne, as Nigel Bathgate has labeled him. Nigel stumbles into a cult ceremony and when murder arises, calls in Allyne to solve the mystery. Ther are plenty of red herrings, plenty of clues, and a decent plot to it all. Some of it is a give-away, some obscure, but it's all there, no cheating. Not like Dame Agatha or some other period mystery writers. I am collecting the series, and I am enjoying the reading. 4 stars, for the prose, plot and characters.
concon
Apr 13, 2009
A book to curl up with
All of Ngaio Marsh's books are different. She is just an amazing author.
