Name: An Afternoon with Author Marie Benedict
Start: 2025-02-22T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-22T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center, Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Riverstone Books is pleased to welcome back Marie Benedict to talk about her new book, The Queens of Crime
About this Event

Riverstone is delighted to have Marie Benedict back for her new novel, The Queens of Crime. Our past events with her have been wonderful and we have no doubt this one will be great! Please read all event details below and feel free to reach out if you have any further questions. We can't wait to see you there!

Event details:

This ticketed event will take place at the Greater Pittsburgh Masonic Center (3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15237). The facility has a large parking lot.
Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
Every VIP ticket will include one, hardcover copy of The Queens of Crime and will be available for pick-up at check-in for the event. Books will be pre-signed. If you would like personalization we will have a signing line after the event.
Every VIP +1 ticket will include admission for two people and one copy of the book.
You are allowed to bring up to two backstock titles to have signed, but the author wil only personalize The Queens of Crime.
Event tickets are non-refundable within 7 days before the event.
If you cannot attend the event, we will hold your autographed books at the front counter of Riverstone Squirrel Hill for pick-up. Please give us 24 hours post-event to prepare your books for pick-up or to transfer your book to Riverstone McCandless. If you would still like your book to be personalized, please let us know 24 hours before the event how you would like it enscribed.
Doors will open and we will begin checking people in at 2:00pm. The event will begin at 2:30pm.

About the book:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a M**der, and the power of friendship among women.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual M**der, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.
May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, 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 M**der has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized M**der, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden.
Inspired by a true story in Sayers’ own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.

About the author:

MARIE BENEDICT is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Mitford Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, The Only Woman in the Room, Lady Clementine, Carnegie's Maid, The Other Einstein, and with Victoria Christopher Murray, the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian and the Target Book of the Year The First Ladies. All have been translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected for the Barnes & Noble Book Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, Indie Next List, and LibraryReads List. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.