In this debut mystery, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham.
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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 Inspectors Lilian Wyles and Richard Davidson from Scotland Yard are quickly summoned and discover 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.
Rosanne Limoncelli is an author, filmmaker, and storyteller living in Brooklyn. She has written, directed and produced short narrative films, documentaries and educational films. Rosanne also writes plays, screenplays, poetry, games, mysteries and science fiction. Her short fiction first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and her short films have screened in festivals around the world.
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. She has been teaching writing and filmmaking to students and professors for more than three decades, and has often served as an educational and technology consultant, and as a speaker at conferences and universities. Rosanne’s book Teaching Filmmaking: Empowering Students Through Visual Storytelling is available on Amazon.