Robert Holland
The Purple Car
language
(Frost Hollow Publishers, L.L.C. June 8, 2011)
On a summer day Maria, Peter, and Brian Bell set out to explore the land around their new home in the country. In the woods, at the far edge of a big hayfield behind the house, they find an abandoned car and decide to make it into a fort.
From the start, things about the car seem odd. There are bullet holes in one side, but not the sort hunters make in using such cars for target practice. These holes are all in a vertical line. And there is an odd dark stain on the back of the driver’s seat.
From their neighbor, a retired farmer named Walter Barbour, they learn that the car once belonged to a hired killer named Little Louie LaMontaigne, who was shot in that filed by the gang members he’d had a falling out with, fifty-eight years before.
But things get stranger still. There is a raven that watches them and at times almost seems to speak. And there is the matter of Little Louie himself, for the body was never found ... until now ...
From the start, things about the car seem odd. There are bullet holes in one side, but not the sort hunters make in using such cars for target practice. These holes are all in a vertical line. And there is an odd dark stain on the back of the driver’s seat.
From their neighbor, a retired farmer named Walter Barbour, they learn that the car once belonged to a hired killer named Little Louie LaMontaigne, who was shot in that filed by the gang members he’d had a falling out with, fifty-eight years before.
But things get stranger still. There is a raven that watches them and at times almost seems to speak. And there is the matter of Little Louie himself, for the body was never found ... until now ...
- Pages
- 163
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