The Four Queens of Crime: A Novel, by Rosanne Limoncelli

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I wrote this book because I am a huge fan of all the Golden Age of Crime writers, especially the Queens of Crime; Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham.

For writing inspiration, I was reading the biographies and memoirs of these four writers, as well as immersing myself in their mysteries and I started to wonder if there could’ve been a time when they met. I felt like I knew their lives so well, it was easy to pick a place and time that could’ve really happened; in 1938 at a country manor house near London as the British prepared for the war against fascism.

Then, in my research, I found Lilian Wyles, the first Detective Chief Inspector at the Criminal Investigations Department at Scotland Yard and the story came together in my mind.

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“The Four Queens of Crime” has been hitting the book clubs this year! The readers have been telling Rosanne some of their discussion topics, like:

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