A conversation with Marie Benedict

Name: A conversation with Marie Benedict
Start: 2025-02-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134

Schedule

Thu, 27 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134 | Parma, OH

TICKETED EVENT: $30
Join us for a conversation with Marie Benedict, author of "The Queens of Crime."
Get tickets: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12148745
Each ticket ($30) includes event admission, a copy of The Queens of Crime, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
Benedict is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of "The Mitford Affair," "Her Hidden Genius," "The Mystery of Mrs. Christie," "The Only Woman in the Room," "Lady Clementine," "Carnegie's Maid," "The Other Einstein," and with Victoria Christopher Murray, the Good Morning America Book Club pick "The Personal Librarian" and the Target Book of the Year "The First Ladies." All have been translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected for the Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, Indie Next List, and LibraryReads List. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.
In "The Queens of Crime," the five greatest women crime writers in London 1930 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 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.
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