Bill Crider - Dan Rhodes 07 - Murder Most Fowl - Plot & Excerpts
Rhodes could no longer hear the squirrel or the blue jay. Even the wind disappeared and the leaves on the trees seemed frozen in place. It was as if someone had thrown a switch and stopped time.Then the switch was flipped again and all the sounds flooded back, but there was one other sound, something that Rhodes hadn’t heard earlier.Someone had started running through the woods, rustling dead leaves, cracking dry sticks underfoot, and causing a jay to flutter up through the trees, squawking in disgust.Rhodes ran across the cockpit and took off toward the noises, which were receding in the direction of a dirt road that cut through the woods and went on into Obert. Rhodes wasn’t sure who owned the land on the other side of the road, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was catching up to whoever was running away.Rhodes didn’t know that he could catch anyone, however. He was already panting, and he knew that the road was probably a half mile away, maybe a little farther. He wondered if the exercise bike that he pedaled whenever he thought about it was doing him any good at all.He put his arm up to ward off the branches that were trying to whip across his eyes, but in worrying about his eyes he forgot about his feet.
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