Murder at a Vineyard Mansion
A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
Chapter 1
I was coming out of the Dock Street Coffee Shop at the foot of Main Street when I saw Sergeant Tony D'Agostine of the Edgartown PD step out of his cruiser and head in my direction. He apparently needed a caffeine hit to keep him going for the rest of his shift.
"What's up on the mean streets?" I asked.
"Well," he said, "Mickey Gomes escaped from jail last night and hasn't come back."
The county jail in Edgartown looks more like a nice big white house than a jail, and Mickey wasn't the first person to break out of it. None of the escapees ever stay escaped very long, though, because Martha's Vineyard is an island so there's only so far you can run and the police know most of the places you can hide.
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