The Ghost Of Craven Snuggs: A Midwestern Murder Mystery
Ice Cube Press, 2022. Paperback. Sandy Moffit, Emiratis Professor of Theater Art at Grinnel College weaves a murder mysterious tale of corporate farmers and a small Midwestern town who are in opposition to the large farms. New paperback in illustrated wraps. 202 pp.
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ISBN: 9781948509398
From the back cover, "Early one November, portraits of the Chief Executives of three major midwestern meat-producing corporations and the governor of Iowa go missing. These incidents seem minor until the dead bodies of the three CEO's are discovered in the hog lots and chicken factories that they own. The governor remains alive but terrified. He immediately orders the site department department of criminal investigation to drop all other duties to protect him. The job of investigating the threats and murders falls to the small, understaffed, sheriff's department. Initial suspects-a disgruntled young biology professor who has resigned to protest the state university's support of large-scale meat production, the widow of the deceased who seem a bit too delighted to be rid of their husbands, and an 80-year-old army veteran who is valiantly fighting the proliferation of CAFOs in her township. The sheriff and his deputies are left with a single clue: an ancient pickup truck that belonged to Craven Snuggs, a fierce opponent of large-scale industrial agriculture, who died in a mysterious fire years earlier. The investigation takes a makeshift posse through the woods, prairies, and crop fields of Nachawinga County.
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