Chapter 2 Summary

The following day Dave drives out to Cataouatche Parish to talk with the local sheriff. Dave insists that the sheriff order an autopsy, but the sheriff is equally insistent that the girl drowned, and there is no reason to put her family through the ordeal of an autopsy. Dave goes to visit the girl's parents and learns that she lived in New Orleans where she was making a large amount of money and made promises to her parents about moving them to New York. However, the girl's father has no idea who the girl worked for or where she got her money. On the way back to New Orleans, Dave is pulled over by a couple of sheriff deputies. The men make threats against Dave and attempt to arrest him. However, Dave gets the better of the two men and handcuffs them to...