27He stared at the box for a long time.
It sat on the dashboard of his '48 Dodge. An ominous, eerie feeling came over Scratch. Thoughts of the events of the past week entered his mind. Some things just didn't add up. People involved in this case – cases, actually – and their motives didn't make sense. Old man Spiff sends Scratch to make sure his daughter's boyfriend gets out of town. The boyfriend is murdered after a fight with Scratch and no one is in a hurry to solve the murder. Someone hits Scratch from behind and takes his glass eye. Teenagers are riding around in a red Fury killing pillars of Odarko and Darktown..? Why? The owner of a newspaper commits suicide and old man Spiff wants that investigated as a murder. Why? He himself is blackmailed by Shaw, and thinks Betty is in on it,
