Historical Fiction Writer Marie Bennett's QUEENS OF CRIME

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Feb 21, 2025 · 10m

Host Diana Korte speaks with award-winning novelist Marie Benedict, author of nine books, whose newest title, QUEENS OF CRIME, features the 5 greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery (1920s-1930s) and their bid to solve a real life murder. That murder is the death of May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, who seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The death has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer…