Böcker av C. D. Moulton

Large printClint 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.

large printTwo bodies in a boat. No cause of death found, but it could be voodoo. The man was a researcher in plastics. No one seemed to profit from his death ... or did they?

Large printA 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.

Large printA strange Englishman come onto the comarca. He says he wants to find gold, which is something a lot of foreigners wanted. He sets out, then is murdered - then comes back to Cusapín! Some people from his businesses came to town. It gets a bit more complicated. Clint investigates what is going on. He DID see that body!

Large print"Clint? Amanda Presley here. I met you in David, two months ago? You said to call if there were any problems about the place I bought?"Well, I'm not sure if it's a scam, or not, but they want me to sign a thing in Spanish, and I only have what they said it says. Does that sound like it could be a scam?""It sounds like a dead giveaway. Tell them to kiss your ass "They made a plan.Then her brother and ex-husband ended up dead. Why them? Why not Amanda? Everything was in her name.

Large printA ship sitting outside the harbor at Chiriqui Grande. It's been there two days and no sign of life. Naldo says it seems to just be dead in the water.The captain was.

Large printClint 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.

large printA dead man in a traffic accident that was no accident. There is a murder in the same group before ... no, several. Was this some kind of sick insane game where people killed each orher off? Why? were there people actually that mentally deficient?

Large printClint's nutty botanist friend discovers a new species of Anthurium that could have immense commercial value. A bunch of people come to town to try to get the rights to name the plant. He refuses. He was shot at on the mountains, then a woman working with him is hit. Why? It has to be something more than that plant!

Large printA 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.

Large printOmar is in the cantina talking with a semi-pretty hippie type girl who seems a bit spaced out. She writes weird poetry and likes adventure. She is going kite riding tomorrow.Omar says that's not safe along the coast. She could end up a bloody mess on the rocks.She replies that everybody dies sometime.He says he'll delay death as long as he can.She says, "When your time comes, you die. Death doesn't wait for anyone".It certainly didn't wait for her.

Large printA sad man in the mountains. Clint goes to the comarca medicine woman with him, where an unusual name is mentioned. Clint find a lot about his past, and why his closest friends are beinhg murdered. A pedophile ring. Clint marries Tyna, and he's not about to allow that bunch to get away with it.

Large printClint receives a call from Rico Hernandez, police, The Darien. He says Dave said to call. There is a body of a man known to hang around with drug dealers and mafia types."How was he killed?""Tortured several ways, then executed. It's what I want to call natural causes.""Natural causes?""The people he was involved with? Torture and execution are natural causes "

large printClint is in Chiriqui Grande for supplies. It is moonrise, a beautiful golden full moon - with a small red spot.Osorio says it is the dead man's moon because of that red spot.It turns out it really was

Large printClint is visiting friends in Culantro on his way to Quebrada Tula when Rigo, a student at the university, says his only problem lately is dead aunts. He is practicing English. Clint asks what could be the problem with dead ants? Sweep them out."What killed them? Poison?"Juan says they were all strangled."How do you strangle and ant?" Clint asked, then added, "Oh, shit "

Large print"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.

Clint is visiting friends in Santiago when a man from Brazil says he is going to stand up to the local excuse for a mafia.A local lawyer says, "You can't be serious ""Dead serious," he replies.Then the bodies start showing up. They are the bodies of the man's associates and friends.Is the mafia eliminating problems before they start? Then why not kill Sargento?Clint doesn't think so.

Large printA 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?

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineCliff Hardy was bored. Here he was, sitting in his sailboat in the Caribbean on a full moon romantic night, alone.He sighed, and read the titles of the books on the little shelf. All about voodoo and zombies and that kind of stuff.Well, he was near enough to Jamaica and Haiti, where that stuff was practiced.He was bored. He was there. What if...?

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad.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 were involved in those rites.Det. Lt. Osvaldo Quinteros Perez is called to investigate. He is a specialist in such cults. The place where this happened was in the part of the Indigeno territory he referred to as the dead zone. It is known for deaths connected to those cults.His friend and fellow cop is Renaldo Estes. They are quite the team.

Large printIt was a beautiful starting day. The sunrise was clear and clean.Then, the body in the river.

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineTammy 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 fourth stop.Tammy was considered a little weird, but was liked. No one had any reason to kill her.Somebody did.

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineHarry Andrews finally got the perfect scam done He was living his dream life He knew there was a time limit on the dream. It was now. Was he ready to go forward, or would he stagnate right there?

Large printTwo bodies on Enel Fortuna dam. They were killed in a dense curtain of fog. They were involved with that sheik, somehow. That they were murdered was obvious. Why' Who?

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineAn elderly woman is murdered in front of a large safe in her home. Clint finds how to open the safe just as Sergio comes in to say there was a lot of blood on this one. Clint is dstaring into the safe, which was filled with gold bars. He says there was a lot of gold. Where did it come from? How did she get it? She was obviously killed for the combination to that safe, and as obviously didn't tell it. Who? What was her past story?

large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineDet. Lt. Andy Forbes knew this would be a rough case from the first call. The second and third confirmed the idea.

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineThe regular group sitting in The Golden Grill are discussing the way a local con man had stolen the life savings of a resident from England. They are talking about how the corrupt court system will let him get away with it.Roland Eggars, himself a Britisher, says the way those people were able to manipulate the judges and police was a bloody shame. Sooner or later someone would come along and put an end to some of their practices.It was sooner.

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineDet. 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.

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineAllen 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?

Large print for those whose eyes are as bad as mineA body, the owner of a gym, is found outside the back door to an auto repair shop.He was generally disliked, but who would kill him? Why?Was he a blackmailer?