Mystery On Main Street

By Bailey Mapp

In the sleepy hollows of Pontotoc Ridge, Mississippi-where secrets simmer like summer humidity and payment for a doctor's house call might be a dozen eggs-trouble has a habit of finding Billy Matthews. At twelve, the whip-smart grandson of legendary Doc Rayburn is a whirlwind of curiosity and chaos, stumbling into mysteries faster than he can dodge his grandfather's gruff lectures. A missing heirloom? A midnight phantom in the old mill? Billy's nose for mischief often drags Doc Rayburn into the fray, turning ordinary afternoons into pulse-pounding adventures.
For forty years, Doc Rayburn had practiced medicine in Pontotoc Ridge, Mississippi, delivering nearly half the town's population into the world-often for the price of a couple of fresh chickens. At sixty-five, he still cut an imposing figure at six and a half feet tall, his frame as straight as ever. He'd worn nothing but rumpled surgical greens for so long that the locals barely noticed, but a stranger might mistake his unkempt nature and soft-spoken ways for a lack of smarts. Nothing could be further from the truth: the man was sharp as a scalpel, with a mind full of words he used sparingly, like a craftsman saving his best cuts for the finish.
Colonel Bailey Mapp (U.S. Air Force, Ret.) served in key roles at Air Force Headquarters and with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs in Washington, D.C., before returning to the everyday pace of small-town living. Growing up in a close-knit Mississippi town full of humid summers and small-town adventures, he channels those early experiences into straightforward stories of Southern life and everyday mysteries. His debut collection, Mystery on Main Street, follows boyhood escapades in Pontotoc Ridge that turn into classic whodunits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1CCP3P2
• ISBN13: 9798273109490
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"