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Marsh, Ngaio. Death in ecstasy. First Fontana edition. London: Fontana Books, 1962. Paperback, VG. Slight damage to top and base of spine. Binding strong and square. 222pp. Light tanning to edges of page block. Contents clean and bright. Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). Death in Ecstasy is the fourth to feature Inspector Alleyn; It was first published in 1936. Death in Ecstasy centers around a dubious spiritual cult in fashionable 1930s London, with an even more suspect charismatic cult leader. According to Marsh's biographer Margaret Lewis, despite the author's conventional insistence that all the characters are fictitious, the book drew on an actual cult in 1890s Christchurch, NZ: Arthur Bentley Worthington's Temple of Truth. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1681418813574
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