C. D. Moulton
1) Dead Tired
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Clint is talking with a man in the Lemon Grass Restaurante. The man says he doesn't know what's wrong with him, lately. He always seems to be dead tired. The doctors can't find anything wrong and have been prescribing vitamins and mild stimulants. He keeps having wild dreams that leave him exhausted. He's tired, but can't sleep in the daytime.Two days later, he's dead. He died in his sleep – while driving his ATV.
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Z gets to be a barbarian when he, Kurk, and Thing (and later, the golems) go to a world to try to find why it is so cyclical for disaster.Critic commentA rollicking good comedy with a very serious theme. Moulton has a deep insight about what drives a society (or he convinces me he does). Sometimes something very simple is the most important factor in societal evolution. – IA Rtng: ***½
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CD throws a New Year party. A flashy woman attends, then is found dead in the morning at the community center.
Pt. Two, Sean and Lorna find a body in Estero Bay.
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2014 I find the first story, A Local Murder, to be rather a good read.
This is a partially revised edition, and was matched with the original. I find it reads much better. The characters are well-distinguished and consist of types we all know.
A woman crashes a New Year Party,...
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Det. Rick Gordon was able to piece out how two murders were accomplished at a place where there were a hundred people milling around and no one noticed. What was behind it? What made it so suddenly imperative that these two were killed?One lived the lifestyle that could bring her into such a situation. One did not.
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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.
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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...
9) Shortcuts
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A collection of shorts featuring Clint Faraday, retired PI from Florida who has moved to Panamá. He works with the Policía Nacionál, in many cases. He is learning the differences in the laws and methods, and is gaining a very good reputation. He is starting to learn a bit of pragmatism about life and situations.
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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...
12) And Then Murder
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5 Clint Faraday mysteriesDead Man TalkingAn old pirate. A murder. The old pirate was a fake. There's a ship. Billions of dollars. Could this be real?Killer DealA killer deal. A deep sea fishing boat. People went out on the boat, but didn't come back. Some kind of deal to get rid of gangsters? By other gangsters? This isn't adding up!Dead SeriousThey were going to stop the corruption, by any means possible. They were dead serious about it.Then some...
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5 Clint Fatraday mysteriesDead Man's MoonClint has seen the accuracy of many of the omens read from nature by the Indios. This was no exception.Dead Drunk"A dead drunk? Why call me?""I mean a dead drunk. We have a body."Dead in the WaterA ship, lost 36 years ago, in the Devil's Triangle. At Chiriqui Grande.Sitting dead in the water. Skeletons – and the captain's body.Flowers for the GraveShe gathered flowers for her mother's grave. Then some of...
14) 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...
15) Dead File
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CD looks at some old files and comes across a cryptic note to himself, checks on it and ends up on a Caribbean Island involved with murder in Florida and there.Critic comment1992: This one is moving toward a more action-oriented format, which suits CD well. It's better than the average in a better than average series.- JDM ****1997: I almost didn't read this. The prologue is a real turnoff to me. It is nothing more nor less than a diatribe on political...
17) Muddled Murder
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Collection A five books
A Sometimes thing - shorts introducing Clint and some continuing characters.
Daybreak a strange case where there is something behind that could be dangerous and sinister.
Nightfall. A dinner at a fine restaurant on a beautiful night can turn sour when there is nurder on the menu
Shortcuts more shorts
Dangerous curves three stories of treasure and trash.
18) Duty's Call
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Theron is kidnapped! Maita and the crew meet the beings from another galaxy, who came to them in aid of a Maitan colony. There are also IMMINS there! As is always the case where Immins are concerned, there is danger and trouble. Maita and the crew go there to solve the problem. The golems are included.WHEN will they finally be free of Immins - in either galaxy?
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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...
20) New Beginnings
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The crew explore again in the way they did when they were first together. The Woost are found, and the M-82nds.