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4 weeks ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Marie E. Benedict
Benedict (coauthor of The First Ladies), known for her biographical novels, transports listeners to the interwar period, the Golden Age of mystery fiction ruled by several legendary women authors. Inspired by a real event in Dorothy L. Sayers’s life, this novel follows five pioneering women mystery writers—Sayers, Agatha Christie, Baroness Emma Orczy, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh—as they attempt to solve the murder of a nurse who disappeared while on a day trip to France.
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2 months ago | 
yabookscentral.com | Marie E. Benedict |Jan Farnworth
About This Book:From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and Courtney Sheinmel comes a historical adventure about a young girl plucked from a London orphanage to begin attending a boarding school with more secrets than she could imagine—perfect for fans of Enola Holmes. Lainey Philipps has lived at the Sycamore Home for Orphaned Children since she was three years old.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
bostonherald.com | Chris Hewitt |Marie E. Benedict
An ingenious idea goes a long way in “The Queens of Crime.”It’s 1930. We’re in London, where popular mystery writer Agatha Christie and not-as-popular mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers (her Lord Peter Wimsey was the star of a PBS series in the 1970s) are miffed that their work is derided in the Detection Club.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
kansascity.com | Marie E. Benedict
An ingenious idea goes a long way in "The Queens of Crime."It's 1930. We're in London, where popular mystery writer Agatha Christie and not-as-popular mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers (her Lord Peter Wimsey was the star of a PBS series in the 1970s) are miffed that their work is derided in the Detection Club.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Marie E. Benedict |s We Love |Isabelle McConville
A Research Rabbit Hole: A Guest Post by Marie Benedict Five of the cleverest women in all of London are faced with an impossible case — and they’re just the people to solve it. Sharp, witty and puzzling, this is a glittering locked-room mystery we can’t wait to solve. Read on for an exclusive essay from author Marie Benedict on writing The Queens of Crime.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Lisa Henricksson |Henry Porter |Marie E. Benedict |Alison Gaylin
The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter The overlap between the skills of an investigative journalist and those of a spy is wide in Henry Porter’s gripping new thriller. His heroine, M.I.5 agent Slim Parsons, whose last undercover assignment ended in disaster, gets a new mission: infiltrate a muckraking Web site that the Security Service suspects is hacking into national-security databases.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
bookreporter.com | Marie E. Benedict
I love Marie Benedict’s portraits of little-known or misunderstood female historical figures. THE QUEENS OF CRIME, a mystery within a mystery, is a profile of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. When we meet Dorothy --- the creator of upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey --- she is joining Agatha for tea.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
audible.com | Marie E. Benedict |Agatha Christie |Richard Osman |Zadie Smith
I am obsessed with audiobooks. I don’t mean that I simply enjoy them and that they’ve become a regular part of my already voracious reading routine. I mean that I have audiobooks playing constantly throughout my day, that I’ve developed the habit of long walks wearing my headset, and that I volunteer to drive far distances so I can extend my listening times.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
bookbrowse.com | Marie E. Benedict
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC eGalley — pub. date February 11, 2025A historical fiction book that is well written and researched of a group of strong women, by Marie Benedict. Five great women crime authors come together to form a secret society to show their male counterparts of the legendary Detection Club that they will not be treated as second class citizens. Writer, Dorothy L.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
nnlightsbookheaven.com | Marie E. Benedict
Title: The Queens of Crime: A NovelAuthor: Marie BenedictGenre: Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, MysteryBook Blurb: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.
