Presentation: True Crime in the Golden Isles - Jan 7, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM @ St. Simons Casino Building - Library/Theatre

Two crime writers and one researcher will talk about their craft and their methods. Stephen G. Hoffius, co-author of “Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow,” will discuss reconstructing historical true crime. Mark I. Pinsky, author of “Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of Nancy Morgan” and “Drifting into Darkness: Murder, Madness, Suicide and a Death Under Suspicious Circumstances,” will talk about contemporary true crime writing. Together with longtime St. Simons Island resident Rick McBride, Hoffius and Pinsky will discuss their current joint project about their investigation of the 1938 murder of the Rev. Charles Lee, rector of Christ Church, which has not until now been solved. The working title of the new book project is: “Murder in the Rectory: An old killing, tied to race, haunts one of Georgia’s Golden Isles.”

Free for members; $10 for non-members.

Registration is required via Eventbrite

St. Simons Casino Theater

Thanks to GJ Ford Bookshop for providing books for sale.