Aileen G. Baron is retired from a distinguished career as professor of archaeology, where her research took her to many parts of the world, and numerous seasons of fieldwork in the Middle East. She taught for twenty years in the Departmant of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Her many years of archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East include a year at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem as an NEH scholar, and director of the overseas campus of the California State Universities at the Hebrew University.

She began writng mysteries after her retirement from CSUF. Her first two mysteries, A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes, and The Torch of Tangier, feature an American archaeologist, Lily Sampson, working in the Middle East in the 1930's and 40's. Her latest Mystery, The Gold of Thrace, a stand-alone, is a tale of danger and deceit in the antiquities trade.