C. D Moulton
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When Sylvia Perez wanted something, she got it.When Lyle Fordham wanted something, he got it.Sylvia Perez wanted Lyle Fordham.Lyle Fordham wanted Allie Bainard, and not in a permanent way. He did not want Sylvia Perez.Lt. John Vernon wanted to know who killed those three – and why.
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Al Rhamer is standing on his dock when he sees a body across the canal on the bank. The man is dead from what the police seem to want to call an alligator attack.What he sees doesn't begin to fit that scenario, so he invetigates with the help of a cop. Then the FBI gets involved. Then threats against his wife.Al Rhamer is NOT the kind of man who will put up with that!
4) 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.
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CD Grimes Mysteries a collection of the first two books in the series, featuring the orignak -cd Grimes, PI. It takes us from the time CD had his first murder case, meets and marries Sheila, raises a family, and ends his regular practice. From the fifties through the sixties.Meet the Original - 14 shorts in the style of the fiftiesThe Later Years - 15 shorts in the style of the sixties and seventies
6) Gamble On
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Critic commentActually, a "meanwhile" for book forty two. TR gets to be a Pinnacle Class ship. The two (books) are funny as hell. Some of the antics of TR as the Pinnacle are beyond hilarious – particularly the description of the "accidents" that befall … but that would be giving it away.****½ BHHA group is trying to take over the casinos on the vacation worlds. Thing, Tab, and Kit can really make t6his a fun thing!
7) Tristar
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The crew decide to investigate the strange psychological repulsion in the area of the Tristar and find a powerful and deadly insane machine is causing it on a paradise world.
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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...
9) Killer Deal
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Clint is in David for supplies. He will spend the night, then return to Quebrada Tula where he and his family are staying.He is at Peter's Bar when he meets Sam Hires, who says he's made a killer deal for a fishing boat. He gets all the permits and such to do with it. It will run out of Mariato, which Clint knows.Sam probably didn't mean "killer" deal the way it turned out.Or did he?
11) Fatalities
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17 shorts about different, strange cases of murder and mayhem - and others.
12) A Grave Mistake
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Clint and Tyna are having a meal in La Tipica when a woman at a near table makes a number of loud complaints about the people at a close table and about the Indios and about Panamanians in general.Considering who the people were at the close table, Tyna says she's making a grave mistake to be denigrating those people.She didn't mean "grave" the way it turned out.
14) Golden Coffins
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Billionaires and hoods. Are they really insane enough to think they can use such crude methods to take over the comarca?
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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,...
16) Us Barbarians
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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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A Vacation to Die For pg. 1Tammy Sheridan, a Valley Girl, like, you know, those in the eighties, won a vacation to die for in a contest. First stop was Cancun, second stop, Managua, third stop, Bocas del Toro, forth stop, Cartagena, fifth stop, Rio de Janiero.She didn't make the fifth stop.Tammy was considered a little weird, but was liked. No one had any reason to kill her. Somebody did.A Vacation in Hell pg.Max Reede was warned about going to Hell...
18) 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.
19) Return to Earth
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The crew go to Earth to see what has changed. Thing, being Thing, decides to straighten the world out.
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Allen Barker hit the big time. All of a sudden everything he did turned to gold or platinum. He had found his dream. He was a superstar.Then his girlfriends started getting murdered. One, those things happen. Two, a sad thing. Was he jinxed? Would there be a third? That would be a long way over mere coincidence.Who would be doing this? Why?