Sins of the South: Big Secrets in a Small Town - Paperback

by Maureen Hughes (Author)

SINS OF THE SOUTH exposes the mafia connection in small communities. The death of a swanky nightclub owner in southern Illinois in 1956 is ruled a suicide by local law enforcement and some state investigators...Why? Why, at the inquest, was the medical examiner who performed the autopsy not permitted to testify? Why were only certain witnesses allowed to testify? When three bullets were fired...how can it be suicide?

Author Biography

A criminal investigator, Maureen Hughes has written her second true crime book, SINS OF THE SOUTH. Not since THE COUNTESS AND THE MOB has the mafia connection to small communities been exposed in black and white. A 1956 'cold case' ruled a suicide has been proven to be a murder by Hughes. A chilling expose of how small towns stick together to hide the truth. Maureen Hughes, with a degree in criminal justice has made a career of investigating crimes. She also authored THE COUNTESS AND THE MOB. She resides in Nevada and Illinois.