Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why?
A historical crime mystery inspired by a true story, Well of Deception spans the early 20th century into the decade of the most devastating drought in Texas, chronicling the 1958 murder of a turkey breeder known as the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, and the hunt for her killer.
Everyone knows who killed Maggie Schneider. But why?
On the morning of March 14, 1958, breeder Maggie Schneider, the Poultry Queen of Lipan County, is shot and killed while feeding her prize-winning, White Holland turkeys on her farm in south central Texas. Everyone knows who did it, but finding the killer isnt so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family history of insanity, accidental deaths, and suicides. Was Maggie Schneiders murder the result of a tainted bloodline, a family feud gone too far, or something more sinister?
Inspired by true events, novelist Cynthia Leal Massey weaves an intricate tale that spans the decades from the Great Depression to the crippling drought of the fifties. This is not a whodunnit. The mystery here is more profound: Why did he do it?
