![]() … when poor Cara Quayne, who was in religious extasy and about to become the Chosen Vessel, drinks from the cup and drops dead. ![]() ![]() Come with me into the Oneness of the Spirit. ‘Now the door is open, now burns the flame of ecstasy. The church has Initiates and two acolytes, like adult altar boys. The priest of the cult is Mr Garnett, self-proclaimed Father. No country manor or seaside resort here, but the House of the Sacred Flame, a sect located in Knocklatchers Row, London. To be honest, I didn’t know that Marsh was from New Zealand.ĭeath in Ecstasy is a whodunnit but the setting is not a classic one. ![]() I wanted to read a book by Marsh something I hadn’t done since my years of crime binge-reading in my teens. I picked Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh for Kim’s Southern Cross Crime Month. Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh (1936) French title: Initiation à la mort (First translation) and Mort en extase (second translation) ![]()
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