author
Peter Baily
Best known for the science-fiction story "Accidental Death," this elusive mid-century writer left only a faint public trail, which gives the work an extra air of mystery. His name still turns up in classic SF archives and public-domain collections, where that story has found new readers.
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Accidental Death
by Peter Baily
About the author
Peter Baily appears to have been a science-fiction writer active around 1959. The clearest verifiable record found here is for "Accidental Death," a story from that period that is listed in reader databases and available through Project Gutenberg.
Beyond that, reliable biographical information is very scarce. The sources I found identify the work and its author name, but they do not offer a confirmed public biography, background, or portrait, so it is best to treat him as a little-documented author whose reputation rests mainly on that surviving story.
That kind of obscurity is not unusual in magazine-era science fiction, where some writers published only occasionally and left behind limited personal records. In Baily's case, the surviving publication history is enough to mark him as part of that world, even if most of his life remains out of view.