Death in Ecstasy Inspector Roderick Alleyn (Volume 4) - Ngaio Marsh

Category: Adults, Classic, Crime, Detective
Language: English
Keywords: Inspector Roderick Alleyn Traditional Detective Mysteries

Written by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon
Format: Opus
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Total Runtime………. 7 Hours 51 Mins

There are many strange places of worship in London. The blank face of a Cockney Sunday masks all sorts of curious activities. If, for instance, a few years ago, you had gone down the King’s Road towards Knocklatchers Row maybe you would have chanced on just such a queer sect intent on their devotions at the House of the Sacred Flame.
Father Garnette did not fail his congregation there in the supply of excitement and outlet. His services were long, peculiar, even spectacular.
On the very afternoon of her death, Cara Quayne was to have been initiated as the Chosen Vessel. The ceremony was in fact already proceeding, when, after drinking of some special cup necessary to the rites being performed, she dropped dead. For a moment the others thought she was in a trance, then that she had been so uplifted by her experience that she had died in ecstasy. They were appalled when they discovered that the cup had been poisoned, and that she had been murdered.
This immediately provoked outbursts of jealousy, wild accusations, and even petulance on the part of the other members of that hitherto austere sect. It provided Nigel Bathgate, a chance spectator at this ceremony, with several odd clues which he did not fail to pass on to Chief Inspector Alleyn, when that eminent representative of the Yard arrived on the scene to unravel one of the weirdest and tightest problems of his career.