Realizes he is in the center of a faint chalk outline on the hardwood floor.
If such people ever come to the attention of the police, it's usually only as a chalk outline.
A blood stain and a chalk outline, he thought.
Here a chalk outline delineated where the victim had fallen.
She looked around, her eyes traveling on a tangent from the chalk outline, through the lone drop of blood, to the far wall.
The chalk outline was oddly shaped, drawn around the chair where she'd died.
Just inside the door was a chalk outline.
Only a chalk outline can make them seem important in the world, and even then, not for very long.
Ames agreed, and a wood panel with a chalk outline of a cowboy was brought on to the stage.
They all stared at the chalk outline of the generator.