This literary whodunit pulls us into the world of American expatriate novelist Richard DeMille as he attempts to break the hold of his longtime friend and publisher Damien Carlyle. Now teaching at a quiet Nova Scotia university in addition to writing, DeMille goes to Toronto to settle old scores with his publisher. When Carlyle mocks his concerns, DeMille decides to buy a gun and end the relationship, once and for all. But when he arrives at Carlyle’s office, the publisher is already lying dead on the floor. Then the real mystery begins.
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"Choyce has taken a number of seemingly disparate elementsand whipped up an entertaining, thought-provoking tale that warrants consideration as one of the best books published in the first half of 1993." -- The Calgary Herald
"The murder in Lesley Choyce's The Ecstasy Conspiracy is the centre of a whole maelstrom of obsessions, hallucinations, and (Choyce being the artist that he is) sly jokes, small parodies, and absurdities. This is a marvellously entertaining book by one of our finest writers." -- Books in Canada
"This is a clever and readable book. The plot is tight, the characters smart, and the insights lively." -- The Globe & Mail
This is a clever and readable book. The plot is tight, the characters smart, and the insights lively. -- The Globe and Mail
This is a marvellously entertaining book by one of our finest writers. -- Books in Canada
"The murder in Lesley Choyce's The Ecstasy Conspiracy is the centre of a whole maelstrom of obsessions, hallucinations, and (Choyce being the artist that he is) sly jokes, small parodies, and absurdities. This is a marvellously entertaining book by one of our finest writers." -- Books in Canada
"This is a clever and readable book. The plot is tight, the characters smart, and the insights lively." -- The Globe & Mail
This is a clever and readable book. The plot is tight, the characters smart, and the insights lively. -- The Globe and Mail
This is a marvellously entertaining book by one of our finest writers. -- Books in Canada
From the Back Cover
"DeMille closed the door behind him but he was incapable of walking across the room to examine the body. Had he pulled the trigger, after all? Was his mind trying to shut out the obvious fact? He had done it, murdered Carlyle. And his brain had already removed the memory of the act from his head. He'd gone crazy. The air conditioning moaned and in the outer office a telephone buzzed. DeMille sat down in the chair behind Carlyle's desk. The bullet was lying there on the blotter there next to a photograph in a baroque silver frame. A photograph of Thalia. Completely naked. What the hell?"
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