Three Deuces Down
A Donald Youngblood Mystery
Keith Donnelly
Court Street Press
Montgomery | Louisville
Court Street Press
P.O. Box 1588
Montgomery, AL 36102
Copyright 2008 by Keith Donnelly. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Court Street Press, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58838-227-6
ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-073-8
LCCN: 2007039139
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To Michele, Alex, Leigh Ann and Ryan
You certainly made life interesting
And to Tessa, my best destiny
To share is to live
Table of Contents
The summer of my high school senior year, a long hot summer in east Tennessee. Most of the graduates knew that one phase of their life was over. The unspoken truth in the air was that most of us would scatter to colleges around the country and make new friends, find new sweethearts. Most of our high school friendships and romances would fade. Only a few would survive and those would be the ones who stayed behind.
That night we had double-dated. Mike Brown and Marlene Long,