The Queens of Crime – Marie Benedict

In 1930s London, five legendary women crime writers — Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Baroness Emma Orczy — form a secret society called the Queens of Crime to demand respect from their male peers. To prove their worth, they set out to solve a real murder: a young English nurse found strangled in France under baffling, locked-room-style circumstances. As they investigate together, the killer turns the tables, threatening to expose a dark secret from Sayers’ past. Inspired by a true story, the novel follows five brilliant women fighting to be taken seriously in a world that underestimates them.