![]() ![]() RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. ![]() 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. Death in Ecstasy centers around a dubious spiritual cult in fashionable 1930s London, with an even more suspect charismatic cult leader. Death in Ecstasy is the fourth to feature Inspector Alleyn It was first published in 1936. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London). 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. ![]() Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh (23 April 1895 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. ![]()
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