First Part of Chapter 1

     The two gun shots startled Dexter as he was sitting quietly reading a book and listening to Bach. Instinctively he grabbed his gun and headed for the door. Once outside, he looked around to see where the gun shots had come from. Across the street people were beginning to gather.   Across the street There was a man,on the grass, laying there, bloody, possibly dead. There seemed to be mass confusion as the police cars pulled up. Everyone was talking and yelling at once. Dexter put his gun in the back of him in his belt.  As Dexter got closer, one of the police officers got out of the car and was asking everyone to be quiet so he could figure out what was going one. The body on the ground was most definitely dead. The man was one of Dexters' neighbors, Mr. Peabody. Mr. Peabody frequented the local race track and often came home angry and drunk when he lost. He held a job down as a bus driver. He was a very loud and irratable character. Often drunk he would yell and cause fights in the neighborhood. That someone finally killed him wasn't a hugs shock, but who?  God knows he had a lot of enemy's in and out of the neighborhood.
     Finally, a woman in a blue low cut shirt said, "Nobody saw what happened but we when came out we saw someone running away from the body in that direction", pointing up the street. Everyone around her was nodding or verbally agreeing. It seemed everyone was in agreement that the murderer had run east up the street. Several police cars took off in that direction.