A Crime In The Neighborhood

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neighborhood, it is by no means the only one,

Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death

of Boyd Ellison.

Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a

tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha’s twin brother and sister spent the summer away

on vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn’t able to do things most kids did

during the summer vacation like swimming. Marsha remembered "it was only after my father left

and Boyd Ellison was killed that I started to wonder to myself what might happen next."(35)

Since Marsha had so much time on her hands during the summer of ‘72, she seemed to fill the

time with investigating who could have killed Boyd Ellison. She kept a journal of her thoughts and

even goes so far as to keeping track of Mr. Green’s daily routines. It could be that Marsha needed

to get her mind off of her parents divorce, and the ...

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three and a half weeks after

my father and Aunt Ada disappeared, [ I ] saw Mr. Green’s car drive past the house, two hours

before he normally got home from work. Later Mr.Green pulled up ten minutes before his usual

time ... he looked sallow as he got out of his car, a little bruised around the mouth, and he had a

Band-Aid stuck below his lower lip."(86) This particular event made Marsha very curious of Mr.

Green especially since it had been the same day that Boyd was murdered. From this point on she

had wondered if the killer lived right next door to her and her family.

Another possible reason that Marsha gets caught up in her "detective" work is that she’s ...

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