Idea: "The Law Offices of Dean D. Bell"

   I was travelling through small-town South Carolina and Georgia recently, and near the resort area of Hilton Head Island, GA, I saw the sign, "Law Office of Dean. D. Bell". This sparked the following idea.
   A man is travelling, either on vacation or for business, through a small South Carolina seaside town. Everyone in the town is overly friendly — even saccharine. He stays in the town for several days to a couple of weeks, and over the course of time, is involved with a fender-bender. It is a minor accident, except for the fact that the other driver, whose fault the accident was, was killed. (The other driver will either be a drunk "good ol' boy" or an elderly woman.)
   Consequently, the entire town turns against him, to the degree that as he walks down the main street downtown, shops lock their doors lest he enter. [The auditory theme will be sort of a loud, happy bustle until the accident, followed by dead silence.]
   Earlier in the story, "The Law Offices of Dean D. Bell", consisting of one upstairs downtown office with gold-leaf lettering on the window, will have been introduced. As the court date approaches for our protagonist, he turns to Mr. Bell. (In fact, the lawyer may have befriended him before the accident and become his last remaining hope.)
   While the hearings and trial proceed, Mr. Bell's case gradually gets weaker and weaker, until the point when he turns on his client, culminating with a scene in which both Bell and the prosecuting attourney are loudly and violently cross-examining the man together.

I don't know . . . it seems to have possibilities.