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C D Moulton
Three book in the Det. Li. Nick Storie series.
Dead Men Don’t Dream A cheap hood is shot in an expensive hotel. There are some gangsters from the northeast, a…
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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…
Introducing Det. Lt. Nick Storie, Homicide and some of the continuing characters
People are dying who shopped at Watson’s Market for produce. Is it because of a psycho - or…
There was going to be trouble with that bunch who were building the ostentatious monstrosity on Bastimentos.That was for certain. DEAD certain!
A man who owns a plastics plant that employs troubled youths who have had trouble with the law is murdered. Nick identifies the killer, then the killer is murdered.
A truly exotic poison is killing people. The only connection Nick can find is on the internet, and that’s tenuous, at best. Does he have some new kind of serial…
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…
There is a report that someone is snooping around a couple of houses on Isla Colon. Police action is demanded - but the one who was supposed to have made…
A man goes out into the gukf with a woman aboard. They don’t return. Nick investigates. The boat is found - with blood. What happened here?
Three detectives retire to a paradise place (Well, one was already there) and unite to try to solve a difficult case.
CD Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday meet in…
Clint is old and can’t move around like he used to. He feels useless because he can’t work with his people much. He still can solve mysteries This one involves…
Tab and TR respond to a plea for help from a Feach. It seems a Feach has been kidnapped - after supposedly witnessing a Murder, Khlien Style .
Critic comment…
Maita, Z, and Thing decide to explore the way they did many years ago while Tab and Kit and Kurk have their own adventures. They find the engineers of the…
Mertlin Tyana is a mysterious character who appears, always during a thunderstorm, to solve or prevent a murder or the loss of a love.
The idead was somewhat akin to…
Tab and Kit are called to investigate some murders. They find there is a world with fantastic art being exploited. They have to save that art.
Critic comment The antagonists…
Critic comment 2019: I was reading a few older books from my mother's collections. This was among them. I do critiques of many books for groups, and make recommendations as…
5 Clint Faraday Mysteries
Storm Front An incoming storm. A drug runner, A police chase, A body. Not what the police originally thought!
Comedy of Terrors A weird situation, A…
Tab and Kit go to Grandish to investigate possible cultural interference. They discover an intelligent fungoid with psy powers that could do enormous damage to the empire.
Critic comment Rather…
A woman’s body is found entangled in mangrove roots in Dolfin Bay. She was wearing snorkeling gear. That was not a place people snorkeled, and she could have easily gotten…
11 shorts
Critic comment These are rather standard fare for the detective magazines, though they tend to be among the better type. People who enjoy shorter works will tend to…
Clint is in Pedasi, visiting friends. There is a man there who is known for various scams that rob people of their property and money. He is in a casino…
A cheap hood is shot in an expensive hotel. There are some gangsters from the northeast, a newscaster, a car salesman, a retired rock star, an actress - and a…
Lucky Stiff Luck has a way of turning sour. Maybe a killer’s long lucky streak is about to run out.
Name Your Poison A truly exotic poison is killing people…
A missionary preacher on a bus. Clint learns that there are murders everywhere the preacher goes, He is not the type who would swaat a fly. Interpol? Stolen art?Some weird…
Thing decides to write a book. This is from a different viewpoint altogether. A critic said most of it is average, and tends to drag in spots, but the Mactow…
Luck has a way of turning sour. Maybe a killer’s long lucky streak is about to run out.
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.
Darkness, Beautiful Darkness Daren Clowers had a difficult childhood. He learned to hide early as a simple survival trait. He was a normal-seeming type of person in the daytime Then…
The independently intelligent intergalactic spaceship, Iggy, tells of its adventures
Critic comment There is a slightly different slant to these stories, as the one by Thing was different, and the…
A crime syndicate is going to move into the vacation worlds? I really don’t think so Kit is introduced. It leads to some hilarious incidents as well as some very…
Three books of short stories from the Flight of the Maita series
Settling In The crew adventure together. They meet Sisstuh and Fesch and discover a colony of Ape's mother…
Features Kurk, Kit, and T6. They respond to an emergency call from a Krofpth station - but the Krofpth Empire died out a quarter million years ago
Clint wakes up to another day in paradise. Everything is as perfect as it gets - except for that red sky.
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning
Well, that…
A world with more than forty different races held in force shielded sections? Is this a zoo or an experiment? The world seems abandoned. What kind of being/race would do…
This book is mostly fantasy. The son of Net, book five, decides to become a sorcerer. He is a decent person and this is the story of the time he…
The crew go to Earth to see what has changed. Thing, being Thing, decides to straighten the world out.
A vacation on Tlorg results in the discovery of a scheme that could destroy the universe? Kurk joins the crew.
Critic comment: 2016 I like this one, because of the…
The crew go adventuring. They discover the Freenz. Part two, Tab poses as an alchemist in a developing society that is experiencing some kind of interference.
An elderly woman is dead, apparently from a fall down the stairs. Nick sees through that in seconds. Retired gangsters and murder. Nick meets Pancho DeGulio.
Tab and Kit are called to a world where there is an ideal society that seems to be moving in the wrong direction. They find an old civilization, but what…
A very popular man, the neighborhood wailing wall, is murdered on the street. There isn't a single clue to grab onto except one of those sudden silences that happened when…
Someone is trying to take over a small group of worlds. Maita and the crew aren’t tolerant of tyrants.
A collection of shorts featuring Clint Faraday, retired PI from Florida who has moved to Panama. He works with the Policia Nacional, in many cases. He is learning the differences…
The crew adventure together. They meet Sisstuh and Fesch and discover a colony of Ape’s mother race
Mountains, Mists, Myths, and Murder Clintonito Faraday Abrego, called Nito, Son of the famous Clint Faraday, head of Criminal Investigations (a silly title on the comarca Ngobe Bugle), Rep. de…
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…
Be careful what you put on autodial. Nick is called because of the numbers on a missing person's phone. It has something to do with someone who didn't die some…
Locked rooms are old hat. What about a locked security vault under 24 hr. surveillance?
(If you are one who feels Israel can do no wrong, skip this one. It…
