Death in Ecstasy: Murder at the Sacred Flame
A bored journalist steps inside the mysterious House of the Sacred Flame. A beautiful and wealthy woman is chosen for the evening’s ritual. She drinks from the sacred cup, falls into apparent ecstasy—and dies.
The wine contains cyanide.
Ngaio Marsh’s Death in Ecstasy begins as a classic Golden Age puzzle, but beneath the murder lies something stranger: a world of charismatic authority, theatrical ritual, money, drugs, jealousy and spiritual hunger.
In this Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to the 1969 BBC Radio 4 adaptation starring Peter Howell as Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn…
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