04049cam a2200565 4500 2621116523 TxAuBib 20251113120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250280763 1250280761 B0D1PK3S3T Amazon c5436e0d-a255-4e98-b281-b53d14a7e6ea OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10768384 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Benedict, Marie. The Queens of Crime [Libby eBook] : A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. stories about agatha christie. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. fictional agatha christie. boulogne-sur-mer, france. books about feminism. lighthearted mystery. mother's day gift. Margery Allingham. books about 1930s. Women Detectives. Agatha Christie. Women's Fiction. women detective. books in france. books in london. murder mystery. female authors. dorothy sayers. gift for mom. ngaio march. Emma Orczy. mystery. France. HTML:INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER AND INDIE BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie—a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder. London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they're stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. Inspired by a true story in Sayers' own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-11-13 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c5436e0d-a255-4e98-b281-b53d14a7e6ea&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c5436e0d-a255-4e98-b281-b53d14a7e6ea&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)