Marie Benedict, THE QUEENS OF CRIME: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict returns to the podcast to discuss THE QUEENS OF CRIME, a smart, biting, page-turning delight about the lengths to which five talented women writers (including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sawyers) will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters—and how they solve a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels. Marie explains how these real-life literary icons banded together to solve an actual murder, delving into the masks women must wear to survive… Then, she teases her next book, which explores ancient Egypt, archaeology, and a forgotten female pharaoh.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
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0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:44.6	Marie Benedict is the author of The Queen of Crimes, a novel.
0:48.9	Maria is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Mitford Affair,
0:53.2	her hidden genius, the Mystery of Mrs. Christie,
0:55.5	the only woman in the room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's maid, the other Einstein, and with Victoria
1:01.6	Christopher Murray, who I'm also having on soon, The Good Morning, America, Book Club Pick, the personal
1:07.0	librarian, and the Target Book Club pick of the year, the first ladies, all have been
1:11.9	translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected for the Barnes & Noble
1:15.9	Book Club, Target Book Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, Indiext List, and Library Reads
1:20.3	List. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family. Welcome back, Marie, for coming on now called
1:25.9	Totally Booked with Zibby. I don't even know what my show
1:27.6	is. I love. Thank you. Now we're talking about the Queens of Crime. So exciting. We've got
1:33.8	some Agatha Christie. We got all these fabulous women. Oh my gosh. Tell everybody what it's about.
1:42.4	So it is, gosh, it is, it's a little bit of a departure for me, and yet it's very much in keeping
1:48.8	with what I have written in the past. It's a little bit of a genre-bending story of these five
1:55.6	incredible golden age of mystery writers, including, as you mentioned, Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sairs,
2:01.5	who's really my main character, and the way in which these women band together to solve
2:07.6	a very real-life murder mystery, which is unbelievable, but is actually true. And the way they
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