Alan E. Bailey

Alan E Bailey (1954- ) was born in Springfield, Missouri. He left a successful career in 2010 to pursue his love of writing and travel.

He is author of the Midtown Murder Mystery series. "My Lady's Chamber," was published the summer of 2015. "Down The Stairs," followed in December, 2015. "March through Town," the third Midtown Murder Mystery, was published in June, 2016, and "In Her Dressing Gown," was published September, 2018. The series concludes with "I Met An Old Man," published December, 2019.

His newest book, "Always, Crazy Town," was published in 2022.

His first book, 'Myrtha - the Alexander Saga,' was published in October, 2012. It is based on the true story of four sisters surviving two world wars, a world-wide epidemic, and the cultural upheaval and social change of the 1920s and 1930s.

'Louie G,' second in the Alexander Saga series, is also based on the true story and was published in November, 2013. The novel begins with the kidnapping of Bess from her garden in Benin and follows her family from Charleston across the American South to the coastal flatlands of Texas in the early days of the Texas Republic.

'Dolores,' the third and final novel in the Alexander Saga series, was published November 1, 2014.

A 150-page supplement to the Alexander Saga, titled "Letters to Myrtha" was published in March, 2014.

Another novel, 'In Good Time,' based in Springfield, Missouri during the 1930s, was published in March, 2013.

"To Wool and Sapphire Skies" the story of the author's search for Myrtha's roots in Scotland, was published November, 2016.

"This Vast Land - Our Australian Adventure" was published in December, 2017. The travel journal follows four travelers in their three-month epic adventure in Australia and New Zealand.

The author lives in Springfield and Palm Springs, California.