Chapter 22

I learned that Calvin Bow, a twenty-two-year-old biology student at Estrow University and bartender at the Flaming Flamingo, had died the previous evening on Sea Way, plastered by a city bus. How I missed this in the morning paper or on the news presented a mystery for me. I thought it rater embarrassing to arrive at Calvin’s mother’s bungalow on Dolphin Way and have Calvin’s Uncle Freddy tell me.

“I’m sorry I can’t help you, Mr. Dupree, but there’s been a family crisis.”