A book about my friend, Margaret Sherry and other acquaintances

books:


	• Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia Edward Humes Pocket, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Unbelievable.

You just can't make this stuff up. Simply put, you've got to read it to believe it. Excellent book.

Very memorable

I read this book three or four years ago and I still vividly remember details in the book. Very good story about the Dixie Mafia and the back door activities they were involved with. This would make an excellent movie.

for more information click here

Love it.

I think this was one of the best books I've ever read. I think that J.Johnson is wrong. This was a very good book. It did not put me to sleep. I applaud Lynne and the rest of her family. I have even met a member of the family. I will not say who though.
--L. Kenedy

for more information click here

Deep In The Murk of the Mississippi Mud

Those who enjoyed the "Walking Tall" series of movies in the early 1970s will thoroughly enjoy this more recent, more exciting, and more accurate portrayal of one of the killers of the key figure in "Walking Tall," Sheriff Buford Pusser.

Vincent Sherry was a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel who was making a pretty penny in the civilian world as a lawyer in the Sherry-Halat law firm. His wife, Margaret, was quickly moving up the political ladder to - possibly - the next mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi. But it all ended on the night of September 14, 1987, when a hit man ended the lives of both Sherrys in their house. "Mississippi Mud" is the story of how the couple's eldest daughter pursued justice for her parents that ultimately led to Vincent's law partner (and irony of ironies, Biloxi mayor) Pete Halat going to jail along with the hit man and a tough mobster on the Gulf Coast named Mike Gillich.

The story begins with the story of a loosely associated gang of thugs known as 'the Dixie Mafia.' Unlike the close-knit family organizations that tend to comprise the Sicilian mob, the Dixie Mafia was simply a group of guys with common interests that killed people all over the South and Southwestern United States from the early 1960s into the mid-1980s. One of the most prominent members of the Dixie Mafia was the son of an Oklahoma judge named Kirksey McCord Nix, Jr.

Nix was doing time in the Iron Hotel in Angola State Prison for the 1971 murder of a New Orleans grocer. According to Buford Pusser, Nix was one of the four trigger men that killed his wife Pauline and wounded him in a hail of gunfire on August 12, 1967. (The other three were dead by 1971, assuming Pusser's information was correct). It seems he figured he could purchase a government pardon, and using a fraudulent homosexual lover's ploy, Nix took the cash people sent him and had it kept in the law books of the Sherry-Halat firm.

But suddenly, $65,000 came up missing.

You can read the rest of what happened as well as the pursuit of justice by the Sherry's daughter, Lynne Sposito, who spent over a decade chasing down every lead until she managed to put the main perpetrators behind bars.

The story was good and well thought out. There were a few dry spots, but I did enjoy the story. You will enjoy the fine factual crime writing of Mr. Edward Humes.

for more information click here

A book about my friend, Margaret Sherry and other acquaintances

An unbelievable eye opener for me because I knew most of the people involved. It kept me on the edge of my chair and couldn't put it down. That is, once I was able to finally read the book.

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

On a quiet September afternoon, Lynne Sposito learned that her parents, Vincent and Margaret Sherry, had been shot to death in their Biloxi, Mississippi, home. One of the city's most prominent couples -- he served as Circuit Court judge and she was runnng for mayor -- the Sherry's were mourned by a community. But for a stunned and grieving daughter, the nightmare was hust beginning.

Racing to Biloxi for answers, Lynne found the police investigation in chaos. The only sure lead was that the Sherry's murder somehow was connected to the Dixie Mafia, a predatory band of criminals who ran Biloxi's beachfront hub of sex, drugs, and sleaze known as The Strip. Lynne, armed with a savvy private eye -- and a .357 Magnum -- set out to accomplish what the authorities could not or would not do: hunt down her parents' assassins and bring them to justice.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes delivers a shocking and bizarre tale set against a teeming underworld of merciless killers, ruthless con men, and venal politicians. Mississippi Mud portrays how one woman's steely obsession for the truth shook a city to its foundation -- and nearly destroyed everything she loved.

for more information click here

hot or not? What's your opinion? Write a review and share your thoughts!

mississippi

Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia
The Sacred Place
Unsung Valor: A GI's Story of World War II
From the Mississippi Delta
German Boy: A Refugee's Story (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and ...

justice

A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the ...
Blessed Unrest
Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the ...
Fighting for Your Life: The African-American Criminal Justice ...
Michael Jackson Conspiracy

mud

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The Innocent Anthropologist : Notes from a Mud Hut
Mud Puddle (Classic Munsch)
Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud ...

search for books
southern justice, dixie, justice, mafia, mississippi, mud, southern

Impressum / about us