Malpractice in Maggody
An Arly Hanks Mystery
Chapter One
"So what do you reckon they're doing?" asked Estelle as she nibbled pensively on a tuna salad sandwich. She and her best friend, Ruby Bee Hanks, were sitting in the front seat of Estelle's station wagon, which was parked under a sickly persimmon tree across the road from what had been, up until three days ago, the county old folks' home. Now bulldozers and backhoes were roaring all around the shabby building, spewing clouds of dust into the bleached blue sky. Dump trucks inched in and out of the surrounding pasture like gimpy dinosaurs, while jackhammers ripped into the asphalt driveway. Stacks of lumber were piled on the scruffy lawn.
Ruby Bee reached into the picnic basket for another deviled egg. "How many times are you aimin' to ask me that? Not one soul in town has any idea what they're doing, not even Mrs. Jim Bob. You'd think, what with her being the mayor's wife, that she'd know something, but she swears she doesn't. Dahlia's fit to be tied since the patients had to be moved out and she and Kevin had to take in her granny."
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