Late Train to Little Rock

About the Book

Hot Springs, Arkansas, during the roaring 1920s was known as “Little Chicago”, and for good reasons. Speakeasies and casinos lined its main street, Central Avenue. Mobsters from Chicago and New York were frequent visitors.

It was near Hot Springs where Sammy, Zackbranch, Stanley and Diddle resided in an abandoned boxcar turned on its side on the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf railroad right of way.

The tranquility of the small Southern town was broken when little Tommy O’Neal was kidnaped and held for an enormous ransom. Sammy and his friends were quick to come to the aid of Tommy’s mother, Molly O’Neal, in effort to find and free the kidnaped boy. Their efforts were rewarded with success obtained through unorthodox, but innovating, methods.

You will meet such characters as Watermelon John, Studs, Big Julie , Tiny Tim, Nails, Jimmy Don, Hiram, Catfish LeDeaux and many others who all played a part in unraveling a crime in 1922.

About the Author

Norwood Phillips is a native of Hot Springs, Arkansas. For the past 33 years he has practiced law in El Dorado, Arkansas. Some of the court room scenes in his book are taken from cases he actually tried. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the International Society of Barristers. He holds membership in the Union County, Arkansas and American Bar Associations. He and his wife, the former Charlotte Walker of Newport, Arkansas, and their ward, a Jack Russell who is known by all as Newcomb, live quietly in their home in El Dorado, Arkansas. Phillips is a Marine Corps veteran, an avid fisherman and a doting father of Suzanne of El Dorado, and Tripp of New York City. Late train to Little Rock is his first novel