FollowAnother big event for Jackson County Reads is Naked Came the Rogue, A Serial Mystery Set in Southern Oregon’s Jackson County. You can catch up on the adventures of Annie Brandon, an aspiring librarian as she tracks down the murders of a naked library patron and a buxom bluegrass banjo player, who turns out to be … .
You can check it out at the 
Naked Came the Rogue website at JCLS.org. My chapter, set in Rogue River and Gold Hill, appears April 15, 2011.
The serial mystery dates back to Agatha Christie’s Detective Club, but was made famous by Newsday writers who composed the iconic Naked Came the Stranger in 1969. That serial mystery was a hoax to make a point about American literary culture of the sixties. Naked Came the Rogue is a celebration of Jackson County and its libraries. No hoax just a lot of fun.
The writers met over wine in early January 2011 at the Ashland Mystery headquarters and agreed on some ground rules: the story would be set in the present, with a 3rd person voice and female protagonist amateur sleuth. And it would promote public libraries (so each chapter would make some reference to a Jackson County library. After that it was all just writing yourself out of whatever fix the last person got you in. Kudos to thriller writer Tim Wohlforth who wrote the first and last chapters, poet-historian Maryann Mason, who editored and trafficked the chapters, to international economist and crime fiction writer Michael Niemann who created the epub versions and Carrie Prechtel who did a remarkable job on publicity and posted the work to the JCLS website.
