AN ARIZONA TRAGEDY - A Bailey Crane Mystery

By Billy Ray Chitwood
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Published: May 19, 2012
Words: 65,575 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476047836

Short description

"An Arizona Tragedy - A Bailey Crane Mystery" was inspired by an actual Arizona cold case. In this fictional tale, Bailey Crane's actress friend is brutally murdered, her body ravaged by Arizona desert denizens. Bailey must go down the sacred halls of congress and down many dark streets before the pieces come together in this puzzle. He's bruised, battered, but the bizarre climax makes it all ok.

Extended description

"An Arizona Tragedy - A Bailey Crane Mystery" by Billy Ray Chitwood is the first in The Bailey Crane Mystery Series.

Meet Bailey Crane, a transplanted son of the south with Cherokee blood and some emotional baggage. Bailey is an auxiliary detective, has a manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money, and he's apart-time actor. Bailey's got golf, love, money, friends, and a great life style. He has an amusing personality. He's a rowdy good looking rogue who wears his feelings in his eyes and on his lips, and he's not at all reluctant to share his world.

A lovely young model and mother is brutally murdered in the Arizona desert northeast of Phoenix. The lady was Bailey's friend and her homicide begins an adventure for our sleuth that will take him down the halls of our nation's capital where he will discover that fact and fiction are strange bedfellows. Chased by an unknown stalker with a gun, Bailey is a marked man. Wounded, his body battered and bruised, his anger pushes on.. (Read more) "An Arizona Tragedy - A Bailey Crane Mystery" by Billy Ray Chitwood is the first in The Bailey Crane Mystery Series.

Meet Bailey Crane, a transplanted son of the south with Cherokee blood and some emotional baggage. Bailey is an auxiliary detective, has a manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money, and he's apart-time actor. Bailey's got golf, love, money, friends, and a great life style. He has an amusing personality. He's a rowdy good looking rogue who wears his feelings in his eyes and on his lips, and he's not at all reluctant to share his world.

A lovely young model and mother is brutally murdered in the Arizona desert northeast of Phoenix. The lady was Bailey's friend and her homicide begins an adventure for our sleuth that will take him down the halls of our nation's capital where he will discover that fact and fiction are strange bedfellows. Chased by an unknown stalker with a gun, Bailey is a marked man. Wounded, his body battered and bruised, his anger pushes onward until the puzzle pieces begin to form a picture. The exciting climax has a unique twist, and our musing son of the south does not quite know it but the ending is also a beginning.

The book was inspired by the actual murder many years ago of the author's friend and fellow actor.
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murder, mystery, phoenix, washington dc, chitwood, bailey crane, lady cop

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