On Sunday, Feb. 23^rd at 12:30 PM, The Book Stall, an independent bookshop based in Winnetka, is delighted to partner with Woman's Library Club of Glencoe as they host best-selling author Marie Benedict. Her new novel, The Queens of Crime, a genre-bending novel starring Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie, has just been released. Publishers Weekly calls The Queens of Crime, "A shrewd speculative whodunit,” and adds, “Benedict easily brings each of her five distinct writer/sleuths to life, and honors their literary legacies by providing plenty of ingenious, fair-play clues to help careful readers follow along and solve the central mystery. This is a treat for fans of golden age whodunits." 

Indulge in an afternoon tea, complete with tea, scones, and finger sandwiches, as you listen to Marie Benedict discuss her latest book. Tickets available here.

More About the Novel: Set in London in the 1930s and starring five of the greatest women crime writers of the interwar period, The Queens of Crime is an homage to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction that celebrates women who buck convention and seek justice for themselves—and others. As she does in all of her critically acclaimed titles, she uses real-life events—the murder of May Daniels that Sayers and her journalist husband—as the basis for a novel that honors how Sayers and her contemporaries used their fiction to reveal the dark underbelly of societal attitudes and treatment of women. The Queens of Crime is a delight to read—an engaging mystery that illuminates the lengths to which five talented women will go to be taken seriously in a male-dominated world.

More About the Author: Marie Benedict is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Mitford Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, and with Victoria Christopher Murray, the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian and the Target Book of the Year The First Ladies. All have been translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected for the Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, Indie Next List, and LibraryReads List. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.