The Cemetery Man by Bradford L. Blaine

Author:Bradford L. Blaine [Blaine, Bradford L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bradford L. Blaine
Published: 2013-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Graham couldn’t help noticing the substantial need for headlights as he made the final turn out of the town. He hadn’t seen another car since he left Sandra’s house approximately ten minutes earlier. One breakdown out here, Graham thought and I’m spending the night in my car.

Although driving up the road to the cemetery late at night wasn’t his idea of being stealthy, Graham couldn’t afford to leave his rental parked on the main road just out front of the cemetery. An abandoned vehicle on the side of the road wasn’t a common sight in Barksdale. If there was one, they better know who it belonged to, or it probably became front page news. Besides, it would be much better hid if he parked in the darker areas up near the funeral home. Tonight there was an overcast sky that was blocking the moonlight and unlike Chicago, there were no city lights that illuminated the sky for miles in circumference. If he could just get the car up to the building, no one would ever see it. Unfortunately that would mean having to risk the drive up the dirt road to the funeral home with his lights on. If someone noticed his arrival and approached him, he would just act a little unstable and tell the person he came to visit Sandra’s grave one more time, or something to that affect. Graham felt he was a good enough actor to pull it off.

It had only taken about fifteen minutes to drive from Sandra’s house to the cemetery, which put him in the parking lot a little earlier than he calculated. It was now 11:35pm, still late enough in the evening to accomplish his mission. He almost had to postpone the night investigating. Graham hadn’t thought to bring a flashlight with him from Chicago and had spent the last thirty minutes searching the house for one before leaving. How could Sandra have prowled around the cemetery at night without one? It had to have been somewhere in the house, somewhere he had missed. Unless she had lost it on one of her midnight excursions. The other idea that suddenly struck Graham was that the flashlight might have been the murder weapon. It made sense. If she had walked in late that night with it in her hand, the killer might have taken it from her in a fight and used it on her. If that was true, then he needed to find that flashlight and there was a possibility that it was now sitting in Douglas’s shack.

What he was searching for in the cemetery, he did not know. That was what investigating was all about, he always told himself. If you knew what you were looking for, you would have a lot less problems solving the case. Sometimes you just had to get out there and hope you tripped over a clue. As dark as it was tonight, that was what was literally going to happen.

The only light that could be seen came from behind the main building.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.