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What the Fly Saw

A Mystery

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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Frankie Bailey introduced readers to an exciting new protagonist in The Red Queen Dies, the first book in the Detective Hannah McCabe mystery series. Now in What the Fly Saw, Hannah and her partner Mike Baxter are back with an even more puzzling case. Albany, New York, January 2020 The morning after a blizzard that shut down the city, funeral director Kevin Novak is found dead in the basement of his funeral home. The arrow sticking out of his chest came from his own hunting bow. A loving husband and father and an active member of a local megachurch, Novak has no known enemies. His family and friends say he was depressed because his best friend died suddenly of a heart attack and Novak blamed himself. But what does his guilt have to do with his death? Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. The minister of the megachurch and the psychiatrist who provides counseling to church members—do either of them know more than they are saying? Detective Hannah McCabe and her partner, Mike Baxter, sort through lies and evasions to solve the riddle of Novak's death, while unanswered questions from another high-profile case, and McCabe's own suspicions make for a dynamite crime novel.

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Minotaur Books

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146684910X

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What the Fly Saw

A Mystery

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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The Red Queen Dies

A Mystery

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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The Red Queen Dies

A Mystery

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

Frankie Bailey introduces readers to a fabulous new protagonist and an Alice in Wonderland-infused crime in this stunning mystery, which kicks off an exciting new series set in the near future. The year is 2019, and a drug used to treat soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, nicknamed "Lullaby," has hit the streets. Swallowing a little pill erases traumatic memories, but what happens to a criminal trial when the star witness takes a pill and can't remember the crime? When two women are murdered in quick succession, biracial police detective Hannah McCabe is charged with solving the case. In spite of the advanced technology, including a city-wide surveillance program, a third woman is soon killed, and the police begin to suspect that a serial killer is on the loose. But the third victim, a Broadway actress known as "The Red Queen," doesn't fit the pattern set by the first two murders. With the late September heat sizzling, Detective Hannah McCabe and her colleagues on the police force have to race to find the killer in a tangled web of clues that involve Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Fast-paced and original, this is a one-of-a-kind mystery from an extremely talented crime writer.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250037174

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9781250037176

Old Murders

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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Old Murders

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

While a bitter battle for the heart of downtown Gallagher is brewing between an out-of-town multimillionaire real estate developer and a local entrepreneur, it's discovered that a local artist is missing. At the same time, a story of a 50-year-old murder resurfaces and someone wants to make sure the truth about the case is buried forever.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570722188

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9781570722189

Out of the Woodpile

Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Frankie Y. Bailey identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found there. Out of the Woodpile is the first sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in genre fiction. The volume's three divisions reflect the evolution of the status of African Americans in American society. The three chapters of the first section, From Slaves to Servants, begin with a survey of the works of Poe and Twain in antebellum America, then discuss the depiction of blacks and other natives in British crime and detective fiction in the days of the British Empire, and lastly focus on American classics of the pre-World War II period. In Urban Blues, Bailey continues her investigation of black stock characters by zeroing in on the denizens of the Black Metropolis and their Black Rage. Assimilating, the final section, contains chapters that scrutinize The Detectives, Black Lives: Post-War/Post Revolution, and the roles assigned to Black Women. The results of survey questions carried in The Third Degree, the newsletter of the Mystery Writers of America, as well as the views of fourteen crime writers on the creation of black characters in genre fiction are followed by the Directory, which includes a sampling of cases featuring black characters, a list of black detectives, relevant works of fiction, film, television, and more. The volume's informed analyses will be important reading for students and scholars in the fields of popular culture, American popular fiction, genre fiction, crime and detective fiction, and black and ethnic studies. It is also a timely resource for courses dealing with race relations and blacks in American literature or society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031306427X

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9780313064272

The Red Queen Dies

A Mystery

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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A Mystery

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You Should Have Died on Monday

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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You Should Have Died on Monday

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

In this compelling mystery, African American university professor and crime historian Lizzie Stuart comes face-to-face with her long lost mother, Becca. Following threads from her earlier cases, Lizzie uses her keen investigative abilities to research her own family's past and uncovers a web of murder and mayhem centered around her mother. As the pursuit of Becca runs from the gangster-led Chicago of the 1960s to modern, pre-Katrina New Orleans, Lizzie rattles the wrong people, jeopardizng her interracial relationship with homicide detective John Quinn while putting her own life in danger. Ultimately, Lizzie learns that some things are better left buried in the past.

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Overmountain Press

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1570723192

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9781570723193

African American Mystery Writers

A Historical and Thematic Study

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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African American Mystery Writers

A Historical and Thematic Study

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of "doing justice," and the role of African American cultural vernacular in mystery fiction. A final section focuses on readers and reading, examining African American mystery writers' access to the marketplace and the issue of the "double audience" raised by earlier writers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786452331

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9780786452330

A Dead Man's Honor

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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A Dead Man's Honor

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

Professor Stuart, a crime historian, is spending a year in Virginia researching a lynching that her grandmother witnessed as a young girl, and ghosts seem to be haunting her dreams and her waking hours. Another professor at the university is murdered, the police chief steps up his amorous attentions toward Lizzie, and she endangers herself by becoming involved in an investigation that could uncover police corruption.

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1570721718

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Wicked Danville

Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City

By: Frankie Y. Bailey,Alice P. Green

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Wicked Danville

Liquor and Lawlessness in a Southside Virginia City

By: Frankie Y. Bailey,Alice P. Green

Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the "Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens were shocked to discover that the police chief was a fugitive from a murder conviction in Georgia. That same period saw lynching, murders and the wreck of the Old '97. HP authors Frankie Bailey and Alice Green will examine the law and disorder of Prohibition era Danville with Wicked Danville: Crime, Justice, and Prohibition in a Southside Virginia City.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625841221

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9781625841223

Death's Favorite Child

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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Death's Favorite Child

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

African-American, 38, a crime historian, Lizzie Stuart has spent most of her life in Drucilla, Kentucky. When her grandmother dies, Lizzie decides it is time for a vacation. She joins her best friend, Tess, a travel writer, for a week in Cornwall, England, in the resort town of St. Regis. Lizzie finds her vacation anything but restful when she becomes an eyewitness to murder and the probable next victim.

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Speaking Volumes

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1628158018

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9781628158014

Wicked Albany

Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era

By: Frankie Y. Bailey,Alice P. Green

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Wicked Albany

Lawlessness & Liquor in the Prohibition Era

By: Frankie Y. Bailey,Alice P. Green

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.

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1614232849

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Death's Favorite Child

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Out of the Woodpile

Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

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African American Mystery Writers

A Historical and Thematic Study

By: Frankie Y. Bailey

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African American Mystery Writers

A Historical and Thematic Study

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This book examines works of African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. Chapters cover the movement by Black authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers to fiction writing; the transition from early genre writers to protest writers of the 1940s and 1950s"--Provided by publisher.

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9780786433391

Book's by Frankie Y. Bailey

What the Fly Saw

What the Fly Saw

What the Fly Saw

What the Fly Saw

The Red Queen Dies

The Red Queen Dies

Old Murders

Old Murders

Out of the Woodpile

Out of the Woodpile

The Red Queen Dies

The Red Queen Dies

You Should Have Died on Monday

You Should Have Died on Monday

African American Mystery Writers

African American Mystery Writers

A Dead Man's Honor

A Dead Man's Honor

Wicked Danville

Wicked Danville

Death's Favorite Child

Death's Favorite Child

Wicked Albany

Wicked Albany

Death's Favorite Child

Death's Favorite Child

Out of the Woodpile

Out of the Woodpile

African American Mystery Writers

African American Mystery Writers

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