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Forty Acres and a Soggy Grave by Frankie Y Bailey
Forty Acres and a Soggy Grave

Fitting in, being liked by his friends, or staying alive? Sometimes the person you love isn't the person you thought you knew. Crime historian Lizzie Stuart and her fiance, John Quinn travel to a farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for a weekend gathering of his old West Point buddies. Mexican migrant laborers and struggling black farmers. Money, politics, and war. Too many secrets in the past, too many lies in the present, and a weekend that turns deadly.

 

 

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black farmers, crime historian, Eastern Shore of Virginia, Forty Acres and Soggy Grave, interracial romance, migrant labor, Mysteries, Silver Dagger Mystery
Wicked Albany by Frankie Y Bailey
Wicked Albany: Lawlessness and Liquor in the Prohibition Era

Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. As it did nationwide, Prohibition in Albany served merely to force alcohol-related commerce underground and lawlessness and violence to the forefront of city activity.

Prohibition Era, Wicked Albany, Non-Fiction
African American Mystery Writers by Frankie Y Bailey
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study

This ambitious study examines the works of modern African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. It begins with a historical overview that describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, the work of early genre writers, such as Pauline Hopkins and Rudolph Fisher, the protest writers of the 1940s and 1950s, and the authors who followed in the 1960s.

African American, African American Mystery Writers, historical, Mystery Writers, Non-Fiction
Crimes and Trials of the Century by Steven Chermak Frankie Y Bailey
Crimes and Trials of the Century
Crimes and Trials of the Century, Non-Fiction
You Should Have Died on Monday by Frankie Y Bailey
You Should Have Died on Monday

The title of this book comes from an old blues song and appropriately so. Lizzie Stuart has been looking at her past to some degree since the first Lizzie Stuart/John Quinn book DEATH’S FAVORITE CHILD. YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED ON MONDAY will bring Lizzie to the end of one journey and the beginning of another. As the book opens Professor Stuart is given a lead into her mother’s past. Lizzie has never known her mother nor the reason she deserted her as an infant. As she wades through gangsters’ memories and the music world Ms. Bailey opens a richly drawn world for her reader.

Lizzie Stuart Mystery, Mysteries, You Should Have Died on Monday
Famous American Crimes and Trials
Famous American Crimes and Trials
Famous American Crimes and Trials, Non-Fiction
Blood on Her Hands
Blood on Her Hands

A comprehensive text that provides historical perspectives on the status of women; analysis of popular culture/mass media images of women offenders; and discussion of societal responses to women who kill.

Blood on Her Hands, women offenders, Non-Fiction
Media Representations of September 11 by Steven Chermak,Michell,Frankie Y Bailey
Media Representations of September 11
crime, media, Media Representations of September 11, Non-Fiction
Old Murders by Frankie Y Bailey
Old Murders

An Execution in Virginia

On August 16, 1912, Virginia Christian became the only female to die in the electric chair in the state of Virginia. She was a 17 year old (her age was the subject of debate) African American juvenile who had been convicted of the murder of her white female employer, Ida Belote. Virginia and her family was sharecroppers on the woman's farm. I discovered the case when I was during research for Blood on Her Hands, a book about women and murder. In Old Murders, I change the details of the case a bit and move it up to 1955. This is the case from the past that Lizzie finds herself probbing as two land developers in present-day Gallagher battle for the contract to develop the city's waterfront. Lizzie is also trying to find out what happened to a talented young artist/Piedmont State student who has gone missing.

Mysteries, Old Murders, Silver Dagger Mystery, Virginia Christian
A Dead Man's Honor by Frankie Y Bailey
A Dead Man's Honor

Making good use of one’s dissertation. . .

. . .When I sat down to write A Dead Man’s Honor - actually the book I was working on when I went off to Cornwall on vacation - I found myself going back to the dissertation I had written when I was a grad student about crime and justice in Danville, Virginia from 1900-1930. It was as I was researching and writing that dissertation that I really began to think deeply about mob violence, particularly about lynching and how it was related in some people’s minds to the concept of honor. So the book is about what happens in a Southern town on a hot August day in 1921 when the city physician is murdered. It’s about the ripple effect of that murder and the lynching that followed.

A Dead Man's Honor, Lizzie, Mysteries, Silver Dagger Mystery

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