FIRST COME, FIRST KILL

Captain Helmrich, N.Y. State Police, has personal interest in finding who shot the old man, who died in his driveway, and also his Great Dane. The corpse is that of a vanished upstate judge and his murder is linked to his wife's second marriage and to his inheriting laughter but the situations disclosed have little relation to the killer, when revealed. An out in left field that reaches home base.