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The year is 1931 and bestselling author Dorothy Sayers is putting together the Detection Club, a group of the top mystery writers of the day. She invites Agatha Christie and is alarmed that the group is mostly men, they don’t want more women. Since it’s Dorothy’s group she invites more women writers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy, and they will form a sub group, called the Queens Of Crime. In order to get the respect they want, they decide to band together and solve a real-life murder case. It takes them to France and the murder of a woman named May Daniels, an English nurse who vanished months ago and whose body was just found. They begin their investigation and must be getting close to the truth, as one of them is threatened and they find working together to be quite the bonding experience. This is an awesome novel, bringing the five female writers to life, in a way never before seen. This is one that fans of mystery writers will enjoy.
