Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
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 writerPeter 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 Mudwas a 1995  finalist for the Edgar Award in  Fact Crime.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.