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 isn’t so easy. The search uncovers a troubled family history
of insanity, accidental deaths, and suicides. Was Maggie Schneider’s 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?
