mdbtools on sourceforge has not been updated since 2004. I see someone has put it on github and seems to have made a few small changes. The SQL support in it was never that good, it was read only and I know from experience trying it under Perl with DBD::ODBC a lot of the tests failed. I think you are going to have a hard time with it.

There are other more reliable ways to access a MS Access database from Linux but they are all to my knowledge commercial. To access a MS Access database from Linux I know of the following:

Easysoft have an ODBC-ODBC Bridge (which can be used to access a MS Access DB on a windows machine using the MS Access ODBC Driver) but it requires installing a service on the Windows machine. Easysoft also have a MS Access ODBC driver which can be used for direct access to the mdb/accdb file so long as it is visible from Linux.

There are other commercial ODBC bridges from Openlink.