The Queens of Crime

Dorothy meets her husband, Mac, at the Vole Hole, a bar popular with the reporters on assignment in Boulogne. The male reporters speculate that May and Celia were involved in the French drug trade and were murdered because of it. Dorothy reasons that if the girls were in search of morphine, they could have obtained it at the English hospital where they worked rather than traveling to Boulogne. She leaves the bar, disgusted by the gossip. While waiting for dinner with the Queens, Dorothy learns that May was spotted crying in the park on the day she disappeared.

Mac is called off the May Daniels story to report on the extradition of Lord Tarrington, a British aristocrat in hiding in Boulogne. Dorothy regrets that she’ll lose her easy access to reporters investigating May’s disappearance but is grateful that she’ll have more free time to pursue her theories. She meets with the other Queens of Crime, who are infuriated that the media is reporting theories that May and Celia were involved in the drug trade. Dorothy is embarrassed to see that Mac’s article is among those blaming May for her own death. The Queens vow to change this