ABOUT THE ITALICS the model for the Rick Walker mystery series is, of course, the noir tales of Raymond Chandler; all 8 novels and most of his short stories were first-person-past, in the POV of the detective; so that is what I did
but I wanted to show the discovery of the body, and Rick was not there, so I chose omniscient-present, and to distinguish the POV shift, I italicized
(and in later books, I've had some fun with it: in "Shasta Hoedown", the murder is witnessed by a trout, in third-person-present italics)
the model for the Rick Walker mystery series is, of course, the noir tales of Raymond Chandler; all 8 novels and most of his short stories were first-person-past, in the POV of the detective; so that is what I did
but I wanted to show the discovery of the body, and Rick was not there, so I chose omniscient-present, and to distinguish the POV shift, I italicized
(and in later books, I've had some fun with it: in "Shasta Hoedown", the murder is witnessed by a trout, in third-person-present italics)