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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 "
4) 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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Dave calls Clint from Tobobé, where he has met Armitage Lincoln, a psychic investigator. Army has been taking a lot of information from an old man, Francisco Escobar, who knows hundreds of tales from times past.Trouble was, the stories he told, like he was part of, were more from a couple of hundred years ago.A body is found in the yuca plot of the puebla. He is a young man named, of all things, Pancho EscobarFrancisco did not come last night.Clint...
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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
9) Die Trying
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A 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!
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Clint'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!
11) Dead Giveaway
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"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?...
12) Dead Drunk
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Sergio, head of the Bocas Town police, calls Clint. He says he has a problem. A dead drunk."Why call me about some drunk?" Clint asks."No. I mean a dead drunk. A body."
14) Dead Reckoning
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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 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....
17) Daybreak
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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 doesn't mean much, here in Panama'. There are a lot of colorful sunrises.
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Puerto Armuelles, a scam, a mob boss,murders ,,, come on! Gimme a break!
18) Blood and Gold
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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?
19) Dead Man's Moon
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Clint 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
20) A Bloody Shame
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The 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.
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