From embezzler Edward Cates and his effort to avoid prosecution by faking his own death to the hoop-skirted damsels of the antebellum south and a three-generation struggle for social supremacy, Mississippi knows its way around the seven deadly sins. The black Knight of Mississippi Alexander McClung finally meets the duelist he can't defeat-himself. Kiah Lincecum hunts for the easy doller. Nellie Jackson's Natchez bordello caters to a community's base interests. John Law concocts America's first Ponzi scheme with the Mississippi Bubble. The Magnolia State's foremost food critic settles in for a famously gluttonous thirty-one-course meal. And a wrathful scene unfolds at the carroll Country Courthouse. Join authors Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett on this descent into the darkest depths of Mississippi.