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J. F. Margos - The Art of Crime
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........... I stood at the back screen door, inhaling the fragrance of mountain laurel, red bud and ornamental peach blended by rainwater with the mustiness of oak and elm. It was 3:00 in the morning and the back of my neck was stiff from the last five hours I had just spent reconstructing the face of a murder victim found near Hutto off of Highway 79. A 30-ish-year-old woman had been laid to rest in an untimely fashion in a grove of cottonwood trees. There she had spent the winter decomposing with the leaves, until two high school kids hiked by and found her. Lieutenant Drew Smith of the Texas Rangers had asked me to put the woman's face back on her skull in the hopes that someone might recognize her. Without her identity, there was no hope of finding her killer.
.......... I dug gray clay shavings out from under my fingernails and rolled my head back in a circular fashion to loosen the sore muscles. The half moon peeked between branches of new growth overhead and the soft, intermittent dripping of water from the eaves and trees hypnotized me into meditation in my fatigue. My eyes glazed over and I drifted back in time to a day I remembered working in the garage with my dad. The car was an old '50 Chevy that needed an oil change and the rain outside pounded down while Daddy instructed me on the finer points of removing and replacing an oil filter.
.......... The phone rang like an alarm and I was startled out of my reverie. I hurried into the kitchen and picked up the receiver on the old black clunker on the wall.
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