The Tuxedoed Corpse

Chief detective Bumpy Morris of the Wilmington, North Carolina Police Department is called early in the morning to inspect a shallow grave that has been discovered in a local park. It contains an elderly-looking man with long, gray hair wearing a dark tuxedo and clutching a German Luger in his lap. The man’s right arm is held stiffly upward with the index finger pointing straight into the air. Checking the corpse for identification, Bumpy discovers that this man was his college roommate forty years ago. In the ensuing investigation, he finds himself traveling to areas of the city he would not have expected, and being confronted by friends and acquaintances from his own past. It eventually becomes obvious that the solution to this case will lie in unraveling the eccentric personality and peculiar lifestyle of his ex-roommate, one that the roommate adopted many years ago after he left college.