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Congrats to OBX author Scott Fields for selling over 60 books at his book signing!

Congrats to OBX author Scott Fields for selling over 60 books at his book signing!

 
MANSFIELD, OHIO – The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society hosted a book signing this Scott-4Labor Day weekend for Outer Banks Publishing Group author Scott Fields, author of The Mansfield Killings at the historic and haunted Ohio State Reformatory.

Scott said he sold approximately 60 copies of his best selling novel, The Mansfield Killings, based on true events about two ex-cons who went on a 2-week killing spree in the summer of 1948.

The spree attracted national headlines back then ending in a dramatic shootout with police on Route 224 where one ex-con was killed and the other captured.

Scott meticulously researched the event obtaining copies of original documents and photos and then turned the dark chain of events into a novel.Mansfield Killing Book Signing cropped

“I just had to write this book. It took me only four months to finish it,” he said earlier.

The killing spree is part of Mansfield, Ohio’s dark lore, where the state erected an historical highway marker on Route 224 where the killers were confronted and stopped. It’s like the town fathers wanted future generations to remember the horror of that summer more than 60 years ago.

The book signing was held at the Ohio State Reformatory, reputed to be haunted by former prisoners and the location of the filming of the 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.

Scott’s book signing was part of the  20-year-reunion party of The Shawshank Redemption where fans were treated to a Hollywood tour of the rooms and areas where the movie was filmed.

The Mansfield Killings is available from Amazon in both ebook and print versions and in fine bookstores everywhere.

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The Ohio State Reformatory, alleged to be haunted by former prisoners, now a significant US historical site

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