Meet Bailey Crane, a son of the south, now firmly transplanted in
Phoenix, Arizona. Bailey is six feet tall, one hundred eighty-five
pounds, a ruggedly good looking guy in the mold of a young
Christopher Plummer, the "Sound of Music" gentleman. Bailey has
just enough nuance in his charming southern manners and speech to
make him appealing to most, perhaps a bit flamboyant for some. He's
got a soft manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money.
He's an actor on the local and regional scene, doing television
commercials, print modeling, and some theater. He's a private
investigator for a few attorney friends in town, and, a former cop,
he is an auxiliary detective for the Phoenix PD. Bailey has love,
friends, golf, and a bon vivant life style. For the most part the
man is a crusader without a cape and has life just about where he
wants it. In "An Arizona Tragedy" Bailey Crane's life takes a
perilous and tumultuous twist when a young lady friend is brutally
murdered in the Arizona desert. The friend, a twenty-six year old
single mother and model, goes missing for weeks, is then found in a
desert arroyo just northeast of Scottsdale, her skull crushed, her
body ravaged and unrecognizable. Working privately on an estate
matter for one of his attorney friends, Bailey finds the name of
his lady friend's boyfriend. The discovery does not necessarily
have great significance but it does start the wheels turning in the
mind of our southern sleuth. Bailey becomes a target for an unknown
pursuer and ends up battered, bruised, and angry. His strong
feeling of hostility pushes him deeper into his friend's murder,
and, finding a possible connecting link, he travels to Washington,
D. C., to the hallowed halls and offices of the nation's lawmakers.
At his hotel across the Potomac the unknown assassin strikes again,
this time wounding our noble protagonist. The bad guy gets away,
and Bailey has a temporary stay in a Reston, Virginia hospital.
Through more ironic turns and twists Bailey goes on to solve not
only his friend's homicide but another brutal slaying in the
nation's capital. With the help of his PPD buddies, and, one very
special female cop, the bad guy behind the gruesome killings is
caught. The climatic ending scene in this Bailey Crane caper is
nail biting tense and will keep the readers riveted to their seats
of choice. "An Arizona Tragedy" was inspired by two actual
homicides. The Phoenix slaying of the young mother and model has
never been solved. With the decomposition of the body, accelerated
by the desert's extreme heat and denizens of the habitat, evidence
was scarce. This Phoenix murder was also very personal for the
author ... he was a friend of the real murder victim. While "An
Arizona Tragedy" was written to be commercially acceptable and
successful, the author also wanted it to be a token of remembrance.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2011 |
First published: |
August 2011 |
Authors: |
Billy Ray Chitwood
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
290 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4637-5417-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
1-4637-5417-5 |
Barcode: |
9781463754174 |
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