The crime was in Riviera Beach, on the mainland.
Singer Island was mostly motels and condominiums.
White people. Charles Willeford edited Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine in an office underneath the hotel.
I think Frederick Exley lived in the hotel when he was writing
Pages From a Cold Island. I think I went to Palm Beach Junior College
in Lake Worth at the same time Willeford did. I used to drive by the house
Debierue lived in in The Burnt Orange Heresy. Out on Range Lone Road
by the Faith Farm. There was a new hotel on Singer Island with a nightclub
and a restaurant, built by John D. MacArthur. He developed Palm Beach Gardens.
He ate the 99¢ breakfast and tipped a dime. Could that be right? The Colonnades?
Wasn't there a golf course? A dairy? A philanthropic foundation?
An insurance company? Did salesmen sell debit policies
to colored families? I was saving money to go to college.