Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn #4)
Ngaio Marsh
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· 16 ratings · 280 pages · Published: 1936
The Ritual Wine Taste of Evil
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of the Sacred Flame, she was having a religious experience of a sort unsuspected by the other initiates. Discovering how the fatal prussic acid got into the bizarre group's wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard's Inspector Rocerick Alleyn when he's called to discover who sent this wealthy cult member to her untimely death.
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