In celebration of Women’s History Month, join NYU Libraries in conversation with author, and NYU faculty member, Rosanne Limoncelli to discuss her debut mystery book, The Four Queens of Crime.  

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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.

The Four Queens of Crime is both a shrewd whodunit and an insightful look at the lives and careers of the heroines, with fizzy conversations about each woman’s writing style seamlessly woven into their crime-solving. The result is a note-perfect Golden Age pastiche with a satisfying metafictional twist.

About the Author - 

Rosanne Limoncelli  is an author, filmmaker, and storyteller living in Brooklyn. Rosanne writes plays, screenplays, poetry, games, mysteries and science fiction.  Her debut mystery novel is The Four Queens of Crime published by Crooked Lane Books at Penguin Random House.  Rosanne is the Senior Director for Film Technologies at the Kanbar Institute and the Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she also teaches filmmaking, story writing and virtual production. She received her BFA in Film & TV Production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her MA and PhD in Teaching Reading, Writing, and Media from NYU’s Steinhardt School.