If the Shroud Fits - Wear It!: Clint Faraday Mysteries, #25

By C. D. Moulton

A man with a bit part in a pay, who wore a shroud for the part - is found dead wearing that shroud. There are some people involvedmwho were i show business. Which one of tem illed hpm?Why?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. D. Moulton
• Release date: Jun 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201496401

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Clint Faraday Mysteries

book 25

If the Shroud Fits – Wear It!

(c) 2012 & 2018 by C. D. Moulton

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblances to persons, living or dead, or events is purely coincidental unless otherwise stated.

Clint is Helping Judi Lum, his attractive nextdoor neighbor, put a play she wrote on the stage. They are having a dress rehearsal where Hanson McReady appears in a shroud. Vinny remarks that the shroud fits his personality and Judi says, If the shroud fits....

Then McReady is found dead – wearing that shroud.

Cmmt HD: I thought this was going to be an overdone theme. I kept thinking another victim, regardless of the name! I like this one.

Contents

About the author

Dress Rehearsal

Show Time!

Enter Stage Left

To Be or Not To Be?

She Should Have Died!

Out, Damned Spot!

Connect the Dots

Curtain!

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. He started writing books in 1983 and has published more than 100 books as of January 1, 2012. 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, among other works.

He now resides in David, Panamá, where he writes the Clint Faraday mystery series and plays music with friends – and pursues his favorite ways to spend his time: beach bum and roaming the mountains.

CD is involved in research of natural cancer cure at this time. It has proven effective in all cases, so far. It is based on a plant that has been in use for thousands of years, is safe, available, and cheap. He has studied botany, and was cured of a serious lymphoma with use of the plant, Ambrosia peruviana.

Information about this cure is free on the FaceBook page, Ambrosia peruviana for cancer. CD asks only that all who try it please report on its effectiveness on that group.

Dress Rehearsal

Clint Faraday, retired PI from Florida, USA, groaned and complained to Judi Lum, his very attractive nextdoor neighbor, She couldn’t act her way out of a wet paper sack with the bottom torn out! Christ!

Judi called, Lena, please don’t come out on the stage dancing. This is supposed to be a sad scene, where death is stalking you and your close friends, and you know it. It’s symbolic of a group of people dying of terminal cancer. You can’t project happiness into it. It destroys the mood.

We don’t know that, at this point! she replied hotly. For pity’s sake, Judi! I have to have a little freedom to create! I can’t be confined like this!

You can create whatever you like in a play you write! Arnold Bates Candles, a once-producer of national commercials in the states, replied dryly. Judi wrote this, and the mood is somber. I would suggest that Judi find someone who doesn’t take method acting – if you could call what you’re doing acting – to silly extremes. All you’re doing is trying to upstage the entire cast. I think I can safely say that I’m not the only person here who’s getting damned sick of it!

Let’s not overreact here, Clint said. "Judi is the director, as well as writer. The director directs. The actors do whatever is within the boundaries of the director’s instructions. The instructions are that this is to be a sad scene, so the actors present it as a sad scene. Any further creativity is within the bounds of a