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An 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?
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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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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 "
7) 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.
8) 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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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.
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Clint is visiting friends in Mali. There is a young woman who has crossed the fence onto the friend's property. Clint asks what she's doing. She says she's gathering flowers for the grave.Ernesto says she had permission. She gathered flowers a lot. They just grew wild there.Then it ended for her when some of her flowers were put on her own grave.
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Omar 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....
12) A Timely Burial
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Clint gets home to have Judi inform him the a friend's funeral was just announced on TV. That sort of pissed Clint off, that he wasn't told about it when he was talking to the guy ten minutes ago. It leads to a group of corrupt local officials and a n investigation of the man's murder. This was a strange one, even for Clint Faraday!
13) Rest in Pieces
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An obnoxious tourist in the cantina gets thrown out by Clint. A friend says he was the type whose headstone would read RIP - for rest in pieces. Then he was found dead. Chopped to pieces.
14) Shortcuts
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A collection of shorts featuring Clint Faraday, retired PI from Florida who has moved to Panamá. He works with the Policía Nacionál, in many cases. He is learning the differences in the laws and methods, and is gaining a very good reputation. He is starting to learn a bit of pragmatism about life and situations.
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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 with three local girls and is winning at blackjackMario says he sure is living it up the easy way. Maybe sometimes crime does payClint replies that living the easy way, in that one's case, can lead to dying the hard way.
The scam artist dies - the hard way. The really hard way
17) Dead Tired
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Clint 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.
18) Curtain Death
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Two 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?
19) Dead Serious
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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.
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