BOOK TALK: The Four Queens of Crime with Author Rosanne Limoncelli
Location:
Bobst Library | 7th Floor | Room 745
70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
Event:
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join NYU Libraries in conversation with author and Tisch School of the Arts faculty member Rosanne Limoncelli to discuss her debut mystery book, The Four Queens of Crime. The session will be moderated by W. Gerald Heverly, NYU Libraries’ Librarian for Classics, Hellenic Studies, Religion, and Philosophy, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
This will be a hybrid event held in person at Bobst Library, 7th floor, Room 745 and on Zoom.
About The Four Queens of Crime
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to raise money for the Women’s Voluntary Service to help Britain prepare for war. Baronet Sir Henry Heathcote has loaned Hursley House for the event, and all the elites of London society are attending. The gala is a brilliant success, despite a few hiccups, but the next morning, Sir Henry is found dead in the library.
Detective Chief Inspector Lilian Wyles, the real-life first woman detective chief inspector at Scotland Yard, is quickly summoned and discovers a cluster of potential suspects among the guests, including an upset fiancée, a politically ambitious son, a reserved but protective brother, an irate son-in-law, a rebellious teenage daughter, and the deputy home secretary.
Quietly recruiting the four queens of crime, DCI Wyles must sort through the messy aftermath of Sir Henry’s death to solve the mystery and identify the killer.
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