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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. The five greatest women crime writers…
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1 author picked The Queens of Crime as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved the historical aspects of this book, which describes a real club that Agatha Christie formed with GK Chesterton. When she tried to bring in 3 of her female mystery writer colleagues, the majority members who were men balked. The approach of the 4 women to gaining credibility and even admiration in an otherwise closed men's club of mystery writers was admirable. Their experience is one that I certainly experienced coming up through the ranks of medicine and scientific research, where we women had to prove ourselves to be accepted and lauded. The plot is also excellent and so…
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