Maggody in Manhattan An Arly Hanks Mystery

New York: Dutton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival green boards with medium blue spine imprinted with title and author in silver. Lavender endpages. Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. 266 pages. An Arly Hanks Mystery, No. 6. Signed by Author. When her marriage went up in smoke, Arly Hanks left Manhattan and never looked back. As police chief of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, Arly is a glorified traffic cop, and she couldn’t be happier. But when Arly’s mother, the indomitable Ruby Bee Hanks, is invited to a baking contest in New York, Arly is forced to return to the city she hates—and the Big Apple is even more rotten than she remembered. Ruby Bee has hardly preheated her oven when a naked man is found shot in her bedroom and the NYPD throws her in jail. As tempting as it may be to let her mother rot on Rikers Island, Arly has no choice but to solve the case herself, facing down killers, bakers, and the most dangerous villain of all: her ex-husband. Joan Hess is better than anyone when it comes to writing small-town murder mysteries, and Maggody in Manhattan shows she knows her way around big cities too. When the wacky residents of Maggody are loosed on the Big Apple, New York City will get turned upside down. .