9780884114789 | Amereon Ltd, September 1, 1982, cover price $26.95 |
About this edition: 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.
9781937384128 | Felony & Mayhem, March 16, 2012, cover price $14.95 |
About this edition: Ahhh, prussic acid, that hallmark of classic Golden Age mysteries.
9780006512547 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, December 3, 2001), cover price $12.50 |
About this edition: The victim was a deeply religious initiate who had trained for a month for her last ceremony.
9780312963606 | Reissue edition (St Martins Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $5.50 |
About this edition: When a member of a wealthy cult, the House of the Sacred Flame, dies 'accidentally' after drinking the ritual wine during a ceremony, Inspector Roderick Alleyn must discover who dosed the wine with the fatal prussic acid.
9780515085921 | Reissue edition (Jove Pubns, February 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 |
About this edition: Called to the church on Knocklatchers Row, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn must investigate the murder of a beautiful believer and unmasks an ungodly cult in the process
9781405509732 | Abridged edition (Little Brown Uk, March 1, 2012), cover price $19.95 |
About this edition: It may hail from the "golden age" of the whodunit, but this 1936 tale contains enough of the dark secrets of a ritualistic cult and the hidden depths of London's drug world to satisfy any modern reader Once again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide.
9780816193424 | G K Hall Audio Books, August 1, 1991, cover price $69.95 |
About this edition: 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.