Hezekiah Bascom

Mayhem in the Mountains: An Agent Beecher Mystery - Agent Beecher Mysteries Hezekiah Bascom

The little town of Tellico Plains, Tennessee, lies snugly against the Appalachian Mountains and the Cherokee National Forest to the south and east. In the late 1950's, the town's civic leaders hatched a plan to call attention to the town's relative isolation and its lack of access across the mountains into North Carolina. The plan was to organize an old-fashioned wagon train across the mountains to Murphy, North Carolina. The wagon train left Tellico Plains on July 4 each year, and it garnered national media attention. Within only a few years, the wagon train included hundreds of people who drove wagons and rode horseback on the arduous trip.

Mayhem in the Mountains is a story that unfolds on one of these trips when TBI Agent Amos Beecher and Dr. Sylvia Poe take the journey. A violent crime that occurs on the trip is baffling Agent Beecher, and his effort to unravel the mystery proves dangerous as well.