C. D Moulton
1) Road Kill
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Clint gets a call from Rosario Puentes, police, to say there was a road kill found on the bridge near Chiriqui. Seeing he was in David, would he like to help the investigation? "Road kill? So what?" "He was a man named Ernesto Barco. He was popular. We don't know who would kill him or why. It doesn't look like it could have been a hit and run." Oh. That kind of road kill.
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5 novellas from the Clint Faraday MysteriesA Smidgen of MurderA needy woman dies from a dose of cyanide at a gourmet dinner. There are far too many suspects. Who – or what – is behind her death?Dead Aunts"Strangled? How in hell do you strangle an ant ... Oh, shit!"A Bloody ShameThe corruption has gotten so bad and so blatant, something will have to be done, as it is hurting Panama. Someone has found a way to take revenge on some of those crooks!...
3) Deadly Game
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A man is conned into a scheme he won't aid. He kills one of the echemers, and Clint hides him from them while he investigates what is goinhg on. He ends up in a rather strange situation.
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A woman on the beach. She is bored with life out of the city, but gets bored with life IN the city. She becomes friends with the Faradays, and set out to find adventure. She is murdered - but it wasn't her! Her son and daughter come to town. They want her back in the states for the business.What is going on?
6) Do Tell!
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The crew investigate a world where there seems to be a cyclic growth, then destruction.Critic commentLately Moulton seems fixated in what he calls social dynamics and imperatives. This type of thing would be off-putting to me when looking for a work to read. Such works are most often rather boring and tend to preach.Not the case with Moulton. The story is rather nicely connected and very humorous at times. There is a sense of fun shared between the...
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5 Clint Faraday MysteriesStorm FrontAn incoming storm. A drug runner, A police chase, A body. Not what the police originally thought!Comedy of TerrorsA weird situation, A voodoo queen was trying to take over the world economy? That would be totally laughable – if it weren't for the murders.OmenSometimes, for reasons it's impossible to guess, omens can come trueFollow the BloodSome kind of weird survivors' club? Murder, casual, must not interfere...
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A bout research with medicinal plants. Much of it is old rfemedies, but with modern study where the aim was to find what worked or didn't work and why.For instance, why a thing has a reputation for sffectiveness, but testing was mixed. Such things as ferrotopsis, which is catalytic in action, is the difference in success and failure is some, as is piperine.There are suggested cures and treatments to investigate, and that are safe if minimal care is...
10) On the Dome
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The crew decide to go exploring while Tab and Kit are getting settled in the detective business. The Krofpth are discovered. TAR-1 is met, and other adventures.
11) Color Her Dead
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Susan Burch was a strange sort of person. She was an artist, very able, in paints. She used substitute colors, getting some amazing results. It was a talent she had noticed as a child. She would change tones and hues in all of a painting.She had a commission in Isla Tormenta, a small lush Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. A wealthy man there wanted his girlfriends and their friends painted, using the technique.He had a wife and young daughter....
12) How Odd
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The crew are called to a world where there seems to be outside influence. They find a gleaming marble city with some strange inconsistencies. It is soon obvious there is outside influence that could destroy the people´s chances to advance.Second part, they go to the planet the inyterlopers have based a colony of people on. they are interfering as badly with an evolving culture - or are they?
13) Nightfall
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Clint is having a delicious meal until a family comes to the long table on the deck of the Pirate. A malicious oldman has, apparently, brought his family on a vacation where he constantly belittles them,
He suddenly can't swallow. Clint goes to help.
The old man is murdered that night, Clint is called to aid the police.
Then it gets weird. More murders, horse race fixing, the doctor and lawyer are in Panamá?
Then it really gets weird - to the point...
14) Murderous Intent
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A collection of 5 Clint Faraday mysteriesThe Time FactorA call to the police. Happens all the time. Not so often when the caller has been dead for an hour, thoughA Long Way to FallAll the way to the bay! The problem was that he had to roll uphill for a few meters, then through some dense bushes.Dead Low TideTwo bodies. Died of snakebite, by a snake that was known to be among the deadliest in the world. Teensy little problem! That snake is found only...
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A man is accused of killing his brother. He knows he will be cleared, that it was a misunderstood remark that led to his arrest, but he wants his wife and child to return to their home in the comarca. Clint makes sure they are safe, then considers the fact that Jesus WAS murdered, so he investigates. He finds some pretty heavy connections to drug cartels.
16) Reality Sucks!
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Every once in awhile, life can get to be a pain in the ass.A man is finally fed up with his life, mainly because his wife and daughter are lazy dirty slobs who won't change. He runs away to a new life. Will it be any better?
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Det. Lt. Harvey Plains had it with police work in Fairfield, Texas. He had to get away, but any nearby state was the same. Cpt. Vernor was just leaving the station, after telling Harve that the judge threw out his case against Oswald and Gene Malcolm.That was proven ten times over! They killed Jorge and Sylvia Gomez in as heinous a way as he had ever come across!The Malcolms were rich rednecks. The Gomez family was Latino. He should have known.He...
18) Dead Issue
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Det. Clay Fordham was called when a boat burned off Sandy Point. There was a body aboard. Sam Boars, a man running for mayor on an anti-corruption platform.It would have been listed as accidental – except for the two bullet holes in the corpse.
19) Killer View
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Jim Warren was looking for a place with a spectacular view to build a home for him and his teenage children.He found the perfect place, near Pavon He took some pictures and was leaving when he thought he heard a shot.The next morning there was an item on the news about a body, shot through the head, found on a local property. The camera showed the double waterfall from a slightly closer angle.Then he downloaded his digital camera and looked at the...
20) Dead Still
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"I was passing by on the road and saw them there by the rock. I watched a few seconds, but they were dead still."Well, I saw there was a Squirrel Cuckoo in that bush, so figured they were watching it. They spook easy."The cuckoo flew off, so I came down here after I called and they didn't answer."There they were Like that ""Like that " was a bullet in the head.