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SUMMARY:British Mysteries Book Club -  The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
DESCRIPTION:Do you love British Mysteries? I know I do! I love reading them 
 and watching them on Acorn and Britbox. Each month we will read a British 
 Mystery\, in particular one that has been made into a TV show or movie. 
 Already read it? Watch the show and discuss with us the differences. 
 Already read it\, but forgot what it was about? Re-read it and join us for 
 some great conversation and community!\n\nThese stories about the most 
 talented British sleuths are always entertaining and each us at the edge of 
 our seats! \n\nThe Zoom Link will be sent to you two hours before the 
 meeting.\n\nThis month we will be reading The Queens of Crime by Marie 
 Benedict\n\n\n\n\nFrom 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. 
 \n\nLondon\, 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.\n\nMay 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. \n\n​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.\n\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Zoom\, Middletown Free Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Middletown Free Library":MAILTO:middletown@delcolibraries.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Middletown Free Library":MAILTO:middletown@delcolibraries.org
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URL:https://delcolibraries.libcal.com/event/15272183
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