BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:LA County Library X-WR-CALNAME:LA County Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:de4792e4-3b93-4c25-b631-eab01cc139ae SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260726T040313Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250304T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250304T120000 SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: The Queens of Crime LOCATION:La Crescenta Library\nLa Crescenta Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=La Crescenta Library;X-APP LE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=La Crescenta Library:geo:34.2246849,-118.2403732 GEO:34.2246849;-118.2403732 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a weekly discussion of 'The Queens of Crime' by Ma rie Benedict. We will meet on Tuesdays\, March 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 from 11 am on Zoom. Contact mwiggins@library.lacounty.gov to get your invitation for the Zoom meeting. For adults..\nhttps://lacountylibrary.libnet.info/event /13068979 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie's legendary rival Dorothy Sayers\, the race to solve a murder\, and the powe r of friendship among women. London\, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the for midable Dorothy L. Sayers \,the group includes Agatha Christie\, Ngaio Mar sh\, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Q ueens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder\, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to t he highest levels of the British establishment. May Daniels\, a young Engl ish nurse on an excursion to France with her friend\, seemed to vanish int o thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later\, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locke d room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer mana ge to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticin g? If\, as the police believe\, the cause of death is manual strangulation \, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? Wh at is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder\, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation\, discovering they're st ronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself\, thre atening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden. Inspired by a true story in Sayers' own life\, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which fiv e talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominat ed world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of thei r own novels"-- Provided by publisher

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