{"id":3840,"date":"2024-08-29T15:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2024-09-23T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:24:59","slug":"the-queens-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3840","title":{"rendered":"The Queens of Crime."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this marvelous locked-room puzzle, we\u2019re treated to a masterclass in solving mysteries from the grand dames of the form: first-person narrator Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries) and fellow Queens Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot et al), Baroness Emma Orczy (the Scarlet Pimpernel), Ngaio Marsh (Inspector Allen), and Margery Allingham (Albert Campion). As a way to be better accepted into the Detection Club, the members of which have expressed \u201ca certain hesitancy\u2026around having \u2018an abundance of women\u2019 in the ranks,\u201d the women undertake the investigation of a real crime, the disappearance of a young English nurse while on a trip to France. Dorothy\u2019s journalist husband has been assigned the story and his work gives her a reason to go to the crime scene, the other women secretly in tow\u2013and they\u2019re off. Meticulously following the nurse\u2019s activities before she disappeared, as well as her life before, leads readers into a delicious look at writing conventions of the day as well as how women skirted the low expectations that sought to hold them back. Fans of the writers in question as well as of childhood favorites such as Enid Blyton\u2019s Famous Five will enjoy the old-timey air of innocent sleuthing, while the women\u2019s growing determination to do right by the young victim adds a satisfying air of kindness and steadfast morality.<strong> A delight from beginning to end.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this marvelous locked-room puzzle, we\u2019re treated to a masterclass in solving mysteries from the grand dames of the form: first-person narrator Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries) and fellow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[149,215,54,53],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-biographical","tag-general","tag-historical","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Queen-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Queen-1-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}