Muletrain to Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

Away down south in Maggody, Arkansas, Police Chief Arly Hanks, &quot;the sharpest small-town sleuth since Miss Marple&quot; (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>) , must keep the peace when the Civil War -- or a darn good replication -- masks a modern-day murderer! <br> <b>Muletrain to Maggody</b> <br> A few dozen die-hard Yanks and Rebs, a dewy-eyed belle, and a general or two have rolled into town...and so has a documentary film crew, to re-enact a piece of Maggody history. Not that the Skirmish at Cotter's Ridge was particularly significant (it wasn't) , or that folks care overly about the 1863 scuffle (they don't) . But rumors are flying like musket-fire that two saddlebags of long-lost Confederate gold are holed up in a local cave, and frankly, my dear, <i>everyone</i> gives a damn about getting their hands on it. Authenticity goes overboard when the body count starts rising, and Arly must catch a killer to ensure that the people of Maggody can live, not die, in Dixie.