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1) Nightfall
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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 vacation where he constantly belittles them,
He suddenly can't swallow. Clint goes to help.
The old man is murdered that night, Clint is called to aid the police.
Then it gets weird. More murders, horse race fixing, the doctor and lawyer are in Panamá?
Then it really gets weird - to the point...
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The first book of the Clint Faraday series. A collection of shorts that take us from when he first moves to Panamá through several cases where he becomes friends and partners with the Policía Nacionál. Clint is a retired PT from Florida. He finds more work sincw he retires than when it was his profession in the states. He quickly finds he is "soul mates" with the indigebous people in Bocas, the Ngobe. He will spoend the rest of his life in Panamá,...
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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 few others who might have wanted him dead, but they all seemed to agree he wasn't worth killing. Somebody did kill him. Why?
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Clint 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 "
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Clint and family are enjoying their last two weeks this trip at their place in Quebrada Tula. Basilio, from Cusapín, is visiting. They are sitting on the porch at sunset, which is spectacular. Basilio says there is going to be trouble. It is in the signs. It will involve people on the comarca, but will not be from the comarca.Clint remembers other times when Basilio made predictions based on a special sunset. He figured he could depend on hearing...
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Will Burke was the type who tends to wear on people's nerves. He wants to be friendly, but ends up being irritating.
He tries too hard.
Sandy Frenton is a female version of Will. As was often heard in the places they frequented, "They're a couple of bloody nuisances!"That must have given somebody an idea. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
Sgt. Andy Betts is assigned the case. It's his first homicide. His ability with this one could make...
11) Night Shift
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8 shorter mysteries defining Nick, his job, and his personaality, Familiarizes the people he works with.
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Det. Lt. Harvey Plains had it with police work in Fairfield, Texas. He had to get away, but any nearby state was the same. Cpt. Vernor was just leaving the station, after telling Harve that the judge threw out his case against Oswald and Gene Malcolm.That was proven ten times over! They killed Jorge and Sylvia Gomez in as heinous a way as he had ever come across!The Malcolms were rich rednecks. The Gomez family was Latino. He should have known.He...
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Tammy 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.
14) 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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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.
16) Deadly Game
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A 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.
17) 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.
19) Fatalities
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17 shorts about different, strange cases of murder and mayhem - and others.
20) 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?
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