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    A Bloody Nuisance
    A Bloody Nuisance
    A Bloody Nuisance
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    A Bloody Nuisance

    By CD Moulton

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    Andy Burke's first night as head of violent crimes in a town that had never had any violent crimes and there are two bodies. Then the FBI gets involved. Then the CIA. What was going on?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCD Moulton
    Release dateSep 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310899188
    A Bloody Nuisance
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    CD Moulton

    Born in Florida, travelled the world as a rock guitarist with some big names in the late sixties, early seventies. Been everything from a high steel worker to longshoreman, from musician to bar owner, and much more. Educated in botany and genetics. Now living in paradise (Panamá!)

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      A Bloody Nuisance - CD Moulton

      A Bloody Nuisance

      © 2014 by C. D. Moulton

      Smashwords edition 2014

      all rights reserved: no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright holder/publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblances to actual persons or events is purely coincidental unless otherwise stated in the work.

      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 or break his being on the next promotions list. His experience is with the academy and a lot of reading.

      A bit of investigation told Andy there was something more behind the murders. Something sinister.

      Contents

      A Dull Night

      A Bloody Mess

      A Connection?

      A Deeper Investigation

      A Puzzle Solved

      A Box of Trouble

      A Comparative Listing

      A Couple of Interviews

      A Confused Mess

      A Victory Party

      About the Author

      CD Moulton has traveled extensively over much of the world both in the music business, where he was a rock guitarist, songwriter and arranger and in an import/export business. He has been everything from a bar owner to auto salvage (junkyard) manager, longshoreman to high steel worker, orchid grower to landscaper, tropical fish farmer to commercial fisherman. He started writing books in 1983 and has published more than 200 books as of January 1, 2014. His most popular books to date are about research with orchids, though much of his science fiction and fantasy work has proven popular. He wrote the CD Grimes, PI series and the Det. Nick Storie series, Clint Faraday series and many other works.

      He now resides in Puerto Armuelles, Panamá, where he writes books, plays music with friends, does research with orchids and medicinal plants – and pursues his favorite ways to spend his time: beach bum and roaming the mountain jungles doing his botanical research. He has lately become involved in fighting for the rights of the indigenous people, who are among his closest friends, and in fighting the extreme corruption in the courts and police in Panamá.

      He offers the free e-book, Fading Paradise, that explains what he has been through because of the corruption.

      A Dull Night

      Andrew Roland Betts walked along the sidewalk just above the high water line at the beach. The sun was setting. The colors were beautiful beyond description.

      He’d read about the omens that such colors portended. While he didn’t really believe in that kind of thing, he found they were accurate more often than not. That book, Omen, said that weird colors in the sky came true in most cases. The Indigenous people somewhere in South America depended on them.

      Wait! That wasn’t a true book, though the author used the reality of the natural things. His detective, Flint or Clint Somebody, was declared by the chief to be a member of the tribe or whatever.

      Central America. Panamá. Clint Faraday.

      What was this line of thought about? Where did it come from?

      The colors. The fact he was to begin a new job, Head of Violent Crimes and Homicide, in about five and a half hours. The fact was there was almost no violent crime in Palmville, a ½-horse peaceful little town in the middle of nowhere.

      You got promotions by solving big crimes in the police.

      There weren’t any to solve.

      Well, Capt. Art, as Arthur Goins was called, understood that. He was a damned good administrator-type of cop. As good as they came. Curt Curtis, the only other cop on duty on the Starter Shift – 2:00 AM to 10:00 AM, was a good cop and smarter and quicker than anyone else he ever knew in the cop business.

      Curt didn’t want the violent crimes job, though he was in line for it. He liked to do the beat cop bit. He was a night person, so had requested he be on the Blah shift. It gave him time to read a lot and he knew every inch of the town and most of the people.

      A sort of shadow crossed Andy’s eyes, taking him a bit by surprised. He looked out to sea.

      He actually had experienced one of those sunset flashes! The sky was a deep gold with small grey clouds, which wasn’t too unusual, but the sea had been a deep burgundy color! It was just a flash, but was very clear. It didn’t last more than three seconds, at most.

      Now, if he were a native indigeno in Panamá, what would he read into that omen? The sky color was wealth and plenty with a lot of small patches of danger and sadness. That was easy. Gold and grey.

      What about the sea? Burgundy? That wasn’t red, so probably didn’t mean blood. It was a rich, intriguing color that ... was that it? Intrigue?

      It could mean blood mixed with something else.

      Whatever, Andy suddenly wasn’t nearly so positive that those omens didn’t mean something. He had always been skeptical, but that flash was something seen by no more than one person in ten thousand or more in a lifetime.

      He would become a believer if something happened to make it have meaning. Something unusual, rare and deep enough to give the moment meaning.

      He went to a boy and girl standing by the low concrete rail in the park, watching the sunset.

      Did you see that? Andy asked.

      See what?

      Never mind.

      Will Burke entered the Plum Pit Bar (Yech! That was a bar name?) to wave to the regulars there. He received a half-hearted response. He didn’t have any friends there.

      He didn’t think he had any friends anywhere. He could feel he was tolerated, and that was the end of it. He couldn’t decide whether he liked it that way or whether it was just convenient.

      He ordered a cold one and took a stool at the end of the bar to sip the mug of so-so beer slowly. A woman, Irene Somebody, came to ask him for a light. He said he didn’t smoke and didn’t carry a lighter to help enable tobacco addicts. She knew that. She gave him the finger and went to Bob Sawyer, two stools away on the curve of

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