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This work delivers the in-depth story of the shocking 1987 double homocide of Biloxi mayoral candidate, Margaret Sherry, and her husband, a judge and prominent lawyer. From the moment Sherry's daughter Lynn, arrived at the bloody crime scene, she doubted whether the Biloxi police could ever uncover the truth. Valuable pieces of evidence were ignored. Other leads were not pursued. When the police went so far as to implicate Sherry's adopted son in the killings, Lynn Sposito could tolerate no more. Propelled by outrage, and aided by the best private investigator she could find, she uncovered secret connections to a dangerous tight-knit circle known as the Dixie Mafia, a clan of southern criminals who keep the neon lights of Biloxi's illegal gambling casinos and strip joints brightly lit - a pack so well-connected they almost got away with murder.
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Biloxi, Mississippi, has a "strip" of nightclubs and casinos where prostitution, drugs, and crooked gambling flourish unchecked. An older couple who thought they were retiring to a quiet seaside town got too deeply involved with local politics and the Dixie Mafia and were murdered. The investigation would've sunk beneath the muddy swirl of graft and business as usual but for the tenacious efforts of the victims' daughter. Despite death threats and indifferent law enforcement officials, she hired a private detective and swore to do whatever it took to bring her parents' killers to trial. Horror/suspense writer Peter Straubfinds the story reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen: "Like those writers, Edward Humes can make the wild, amoral, scheming sleazoids he parades before our eyes all but sing and dance on the page. Here is America, fat and happy, both hands crammed into the till." Mississippi Mud was a 1995 finalist for the Edgar Award in Fact Crime.
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