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MULETRAIN TO MAGGODY by JOAN HESS
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SummaryUnder the benign watch of Police Chief Arly Hanks, things
are pretty quiet in the sleepy Arkansas town of Maggody
these days. Not even the prospect of a historical society-
funded Civil War documentary on the locally touted (albeit
historically insignificant) Skirmish at Cotter's Ridge of
1863 does much to stir up the denizens of this sleepy
backwoods town. What does finally get the rumor mill
buzzing, however, is the revelation that two saddlebags of
Confederate gold were hidden in a local cave to keep them
from falling into Yankee hands. Once word gets out that the
saddlebags were never recovered, almost everyone in town
has a plan to get their hands on the lost gold. Meanwhile, a colorful cast of outlanders has taken over
Maggody. They include a dewy Charleston belle, a famous
writer of historical romances, her ne'er-do-well son, and
three dozen obsessive reenactors who have not yet
acknowledged that the Civil War ended over a hundred years
ago, as well as a documentary film crew and a handsome, if
enigmatic, filmmaker with ties to Arly's past. Arly has
more than enough on her hands trying to locate missing
senior citizens and keeping the visitors from each other's
throats, but when the genealogist of the Stump County
Historical Society dies under questionable circumstances,
and a member of the Buchanon clan is the victim of a
vicious and fatal attack, Arly finds herself faced with the
most baffling whodunit of her career, with a disgruntled
ghost a possible prime suspect.
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