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dontmissythesereads 's review for:
The Queens of Crime
by Marie Benedict
Book #31 read in 2025
Who better to solve crimes than the golden age women who wrote about them? The characters are Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Baroness Emma Orczy. As members, some founding of the Detection Club, these women feel the men are questioning their membership, so they form an offshoot group called the Queens of Crime. It isn’t long before they take on their first case. As a fan of these authors and their writing, it was fascinating to read about their process as it may have been – tying the actual crime-solving into how they would write about the crime being solved.
The pacing was a little slower, reminiscent of their own novels, but it did drag a little in the middle. Bessie Carter’s narration of the women was exactly how I would expect them to sound/talk.
Thank you to the publisher for the review copy. All opinions expressed in this review are my own. This novel was published on February 11, 2025.
Who better to solve crimes than the golden age women who wrote about them? The characters are Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Baroness Emma Orczy. As members, some founding of the Detection Club, these women feel the men are questioning their membership, so they form an offshoot group called the Queens of Crime. It isn’t long before they take on their first case. As a fan of these authors and their writing, it was fascinating to read about their process as it may have been – tying the actual crime-solving into how they would write about the crime being solved.
The pacing was a little slower, reminiscent of their own novels, but it did drag a little in the middle. Bessie Carter’s narration of the women was exactly how I would expect them to sound/talk.
Thank you to the publisher for the review copy. All opinions expressed in this review are my own. This novel was published on February 11, 2025.