C. D Moulton
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CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters. The lifestyle is different from that in Nicely.
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Charlie Sands was investigating UFO sightings in Austin, Texas, when he got reports of multiple sightings in a small area of the Caribbean.He went to Isla Tintada, the apparent center of activity. It was a typical Caribbean island, settled by wealthy people who wanted to get away from their problems in other places.He was watching as a storm approached from seaward of his position. It was colorful and beautiful, at twilight. He took two pictures of...
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Nancy Ann Gilders had married Harry Silvers after knowing him only eleven days. He was very wealthy, she was comfortable, but not rich.They spent four years in a very happy marriage. They traveled to many places.Then he was murdered with a very rare and hard-to-trace poison.He left a daughter and son and Nancy Ann.All three had apparently been cleared in the murder. All three became very personally wealthy at his death.Nancy Ann had to get away. She...
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Three books of short stories from the Flight of the Maita seriesSettling InThe crew adventure together. They meet Sisstuh and Fesch and discover a colony of Ape's mother raceCritic commentNot as juvenile as book one. Several societal psychological areas are explored – quite effectively, I might add.PA – ***Zulians and RobotsThe crew discover the Zulians and Tlessonian military berserker. Tranz and Tom go home to raise families, leaving Z, Thing,...
6) Pool Party
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A pool party. A man is murdered. There is an old gun in a chest. Investigation leads to murders ten years ago. A brothel that is now a private home. an attic full of valuable antiques.
How is all thia connected?
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Five books in different genres. These are strange happenings to the characters portrayed.Murder Happens is a CD Grimes mystery.Anyone may someday get a case he/she can't quite get a handle on. At least CD gets to meet a number of very interesting charactersCritic commentI don't know if I like it or hate it. Moulton has made some normally negative characters into his most positive characters for this one. He captures a piece of underground culture...
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Now You See It – Now You Don'tThe crew are asked by Wahnee to investigate a planet that has disappeared – and they find one actually hasChangesThe son of Net, book five, decides to become a sorcerer. He is a decent person and this is the story of the time he was a young man until his old age.Gothic WorldMaita wants to make some overhauls and changes so Z goes to a world in a pre-industrial stage for a vacation.As one would expect, it's a working...
9) Bottleneck
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Mrs. Bellows from the community center is found dead in a canal. CD investigates and finds there is a kiddie porn ring operating from the mobile home village.
10) Why Me, Lord?
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Phil Fethers has had a strange life. Every time he thinks things are finally straightening around to normal, the bottom falls out.There has to be a reason. He's determined to find it.This is based on an acctual exploding egg. My friend who had th egg explode in his face, almost, and I started making jokes. It got to the point my lings ached and I dared not say anything more. I wrote this the following day.
12) Kari
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An engineered race. The tyranical engineers are to return. They will enslave the people - and they are engineered to be docile.
Can a mutant save these people?
13) The Dead Zone
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Dr. Sommers is researching rituals of certain cults in Central America. He has made a lifetime study of the practices and keeps meticulous notes.He is found at his desk. He was writing about an orchid used in certain rituals. It is said that the flower can be made, through certain incantations, to expand and cover the head of a person, thus smothering him.He died of suffocation. He had also recently run afoul of certain of the medicine people who...
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Three detectives, CD. Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday, retired and living in Panamá on the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, are requested by the chief of the section in Cusapin to find what is going wrong in three parts of the comarca. There are four murders that have no connections they can find – except the victims all came to Panamá on the same private yacht.
Author's note: This is a bit of prediction, in a way. Much of my SF has come true, but...
15) Deadly Detour
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"I saw the sign with an arrow that said to take this road. I don't have a clue about this place, so I took this road.
"I mean, it's not much of a road, but I figured it was some kind of a detour because of a bridge out or something. I don't speak much Spanish and no dialect!
"My god! I never thought I would find two guys who had been shot in the head!"
16) Murder Happens
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Anyone may someday get a case he/she can't quite get a handle on. At least CD gets to meet a number of very interesting charactersCritic commentJM asked me to look at this one. He said it was an approach I would appreciate, considering that I tried to write a story with the type outcome and couldn't pull it off. I had to turn it into a psychological thing that never worked. This was very well done. Moulton has a way to make oddballs human, and they...
17) Moga Me Dende?
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"Moga me dende?" in Ngobere means, "Where are you going?"It is a question that can have many answers. It is dependent upon why the question was asked.Ultimately, we cannot say. We can try to reach a specific destination, but seldom reach that place.If we try, diligently, we may reach our desired destination. If your destination is a solution to a puzzle, it often depends on the path we take to that answer. There can be obstacles, both deliberate and...
18) Deadly Steps
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Two CD Grimes Mysteries. The final two books of the series are more of the action adventure form, though not to the popular extremes.
Deadly Island, one of the "kids" is charged with murder on St. Whartons. CD goes there to see what is really going on. He finds a situation where some world criminal leaders are plotting to take over South America through economic manipulation.
A Step Too Far, Shirley's sister is murdered. It seems to somehow be directed...
19) 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....
20) 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...