num_pages: 257
description: The Ritual Wine Taste of EvilWhen 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.
language: English
title: Death in Ecstasy
titlecomplete: Death in Ecstasy
characters: Nigel Bathgate, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn, Inspector Fox, Detective-Sergeant Bailey
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3956
series: Roderick Alleyn
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited