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SUMMARY:An Evening with Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray: A 
 Pair of Aces
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LOCATION:Carroll Arts Center, 91 West Main Street, Westiminster , MD 21157
 , United States
ROOM: An Evening with Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray: A Pa
 ir of Aces
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Carroll County Public Library and Park Books on M
 ainTickets $39 - includes a signed copy of A Pair of Aces and author talkP
 urchase tickets online through Carroll Arts Center or call 410-848-7272.An
  author talk will be accompanied by a book signing and book sales from Par
 k Books on Main. About the BookA gripping novel about two trailblazing wo
 men on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up 
 to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the
  New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The 
 Personal Librarian.Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City
  of New York and Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, has her sigh
 ts set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City’s five l
 argest organized crime families. Other prosecutors have tried to bring dow
 n Lucky, but they’ve all focused on the crime syndicate’s traditional 
 businesses—bootlegging, gambling, loan sharking, and drug dealing—or t
 ax evasion. No one has thought to approach the mob through its role in pro
 stitution. Until Eunice. But she can’t get Luciano alone.Polly Adler has
  worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. Her cli
 ent list is filled with well-known names, both the famous and the infamous
 , who all know her booze is top-notch, her music first-rate, her food exqu
 isite, and her girls the best. But Lucky has gone too far, putting her gir
 ls in danger, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and 
 for all.Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of w
 omen. Bridging the enormous divide between them and risking their own live
 s, they assemble evidence bit by bit, under the nose of the man they’re 
 trying to convict. It is this very alliance—of two women from vastly dif
 ferent worlds—that launches the most sensational trial New York City has
  ever seen.About the AuthorsMarie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten
  years of experience as a litigator. A graduate of Boston College and Bost
 on University School of Law, she is the New York Times and USA Today b
 estselling author of Daughter of Egypt, The Queens of Crime, The Mitfor
 d Affair, Her Hidden Genius, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, Lady Clement
 ine, The Only Woman in the Room, Carnegie’s Maid, and The Other Einst
 ein. She has also coauthored with Victoria Christopher Murray the New Yor
 k Times bestselling The Personal Librarian, a Good Morning America boo
 k club pick, and The First Ladies, Target’s 2023 Book of the Year. All 
 have been translated into multiple languages, and many have been selected 
 for national book clubs. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.Victoria 
 Christopher Murray is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 
 thirty novels, including her most recent release Harlem Rhapsody. With Ma
 rie Benedict, she coauthored The Personal Librarian, a Good Morning Amer
 ica book club pick, and The First Ladies, Target’s 2023 Book of the Ye
 ar. She is an NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for h
 er novel Stand Your Ground, which was also a Library Journal Best Book 
 of the Year. She holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. Refu
 nd requests may be considered up to two weeks before the event.  
URL:https://ccpl.librarymarket.com/event/pair-aces
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