Mystery writer visits Magness Library

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

FRANKIE BAILEY

If you love mysteries, you may want to check out Magness Library’s next writer’s night this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. featuring noted author and educator Frankie Y. Bailey who will be talking about writing crime fiction and signing copies of her latest book “Old Murders.”

Bailey, who, in addition to being a mystery novelist, is a professor of criminal justice at State University of New York at Albany, began writing as a teenager and has published both non-fiction and fiction books on crime and mystery writing.

Her first published work was a non-fiction book called “Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction” which was nominated for an Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) award in the criticism/biography category.

Since then she has published two other Silver Dagger mysteries, “A Dead Man’s Honor” and “Death’s Favorite Child” as well as her latest “Old Murders.”

The public is invited to enjoy an evening of mystery and method, and perhaps a few shivers, this Tuesday night. If you love mysteries, be sure to attend. For more information, contact the library at 473-2428.