As Perry and Della arrived at the courthouse that gloomy day they were met on the steps by their friend Paul. Paul Drake was clean and well pressed, but one look at his eyes you could see that he had been up all night along with the Masons.

"Good morning Paul. I hope you have something fro me." Perry told his friend.

"Yes I had a lead on a black Toyota and finally saw it . The car belongs to a man named Jim Turner. He has not been too bad a man. He has a couple of scuffles with the police but nothing major. He is twenty-five and has been seeing a lady that lives near the apartment where the murder happened. I have a man watching the apartment right now." Paul told him as he checked his texts.

"Well, you go right ahead and look into that angle. Someone with quick access to the building and apartment could be a likely suspect. Whoever did this murder slipped in and out of the apartment without being noticed. Have you had a chance to look at the footage from the security cameras that they had set up?" Perry asked.

"Yes and unfortunately they were a dead end. The camera that was facing in the direction of the apartment where the murder happened was not working that day. The maintenance man was supposed to fix it but he hadn't gotten around to it when the murder happened. His name is Sam Cleary and I have a man checking on him at the moment also." Paul told him.

As the three friends walked into the courthouse they were greeted by a very worried . Harriet's mother had seen to it that her daughter was well dressed and that she was wearing her best outfit for her day in court. Perry Della and Paul all went into the meeting room with Harriet and went over all of the things that had happened the day of the murder once more. But, she could not think of anything to add.

As they went into the courtroom they were greeted by both Hamilton Burger and Lt. Tragg; Even though, they were advisories in the courtroom they were friends on the outside. Perry now lived next door to Hamilton's brother and was over there quite often for ba and social parties. Lt Tragg had been a longtime homicide detective and Perry respected his work.

The time before the judge was a normal day for Perry and Hamilton, but at the end of the day Harriet Barker was going to be free on bail, but she could not leave the city of Las Angeles. Her parents paid the bondsman by putting up their home, and Perry, Paul and Della went to work on finding out who the real murderer was.

Della had been once more studying all the information that she could find on all of the suspects, when she kept on seeing a reference to a Bill Johnston. Bill was the brother of Peggy Charles. He had a hot temper and was known to get into fights. He had known Dean through Peggy and he also drove a black car. As Della looked at the picture of Bill Johnston she compared it with the photo that she had of Jim Turner, and they could have been wrongfully identified at a long distance. They had the same hair and shaped nose and they were about the same age.

Perry had been working on some briefs when Della had come into his office. She showed him the information that she had and Perry gave her a kiss. "Now I know why I love you. I will let Paul know right away." he smiled as he held her in his arms.

But just then the familiar knock came on the back door and as Della opened it she was greeted by Paul .

"Hello beautiful" Paul said to Della as he took a seat in his favorite chair. "It would seem that our victim Dean had quite a few girls hanging around thinking that they were his one and only. He was actually engaged to one other girl. Her name is Nicki Brown. I am looking into her and looking to see if she had anything to do with the murder. She is at work right now, but she should be getting home in an hour."

Perry looked at Della and smiled. "How would you like some company when you go to meet Miss Brown? " he asked his friend.

"Sounds good to me." Paul told him.

Perry leaned over and gave his wife a kiss "Don't wait up honey. We will be out on a stakeout for most of the night." and with that the two men left the room.

Della looked at the clock and saw that it was already almost five. She decided to go home and spend some time with her children. Once Sally and Perry Jr were in bed she would do some more searching on her laptop.

As Della came in the kitchen she was greeted by her happy little family once more. The dinner was almost ready and she was starved. She remembered how it had used to have been when she was living in her own home with her sister Lori. Most nights she either grabbed a sandwich with Perry or had cold leftovers from what Lori had made earlier in the day. She didn't see Lori as much as she used to and was looking forward to the party that she and Perry were having on Saturday Lori and her husband and children would all be there.

Perry and Paul pulled up in front of a home just a few homes from Nicki Brown's home. The home was a modest but clean home with a large set of bushes in front of it. This was going to make it a little harder for them to see inside, but they would watch for what happened anyways. They had not been sitting there long when a white Chevrolet pulled into the driveway and Nicki got out. She was carrying a bag of groceries and went right inside.

They had been siting there watching when another car pulled into the driveway. This time it was a man in his twenties. Paul nodded to Perry. "That's Jim Turner. I wonder what he is doing here."

As Paul and Perry sat there they could hear loud voices coming from the home. Nicki opened the door and was standing in a threatening manner. Jim Turner was looking very frustrated and was flailing his arms at her. But, after a few minutes he left. She slammed the door and he tore out of the driveway. As he drove by the two men in the car he didn't even notice them he was so mad.

In the meantime Nicki was in her kitchen crying. Why did Jim keep on coming over and arguing with her? He was always in a bad mood because of his stupid girl friend. She (Nicki) was supposed to be the one that needed understanding. After all her fiancée had just been murdered. But Jim said that was taking Dean's death really bad and he wanted her to go over and stay with her for a couple of nights while he was gone out of town on business. The nerve of the man.

The rest of the night was quiet until about nine when Nicki got back into her car. Perry and Paul followed her at a safe distance and were surprised to see her pull into the driveway where Dean had once lived. They watched as she went into the apartment of Debbie Germain's. She was welcomed in and they saw or heard nothing for the rest of the night. At midnight the two friends parted company .