Chapter 23: Calvin Bow
29871 Dolphin Way
11:59 A.M.
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.”
The light blue stucco bungalow resembled a piece of s**t. The gardens looked thick with weeds, Spanish moss hung down from the trees in dense layers, and boards covered two windows, which I assumed were left up from one of last year’s hurricanes. The bungalow appear
