Flowers for the Grave: Clint Faraday Mysteries, #49

By C. D. Moulton

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. D. Moulton
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201961701

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Clint Faraday

book forty nine

Flowers for the Grave

© 2019 by C. D. Moulton

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

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.

Contents

About the author

Flower Power

Past Foibles

Suspects

Cause and Effect

Missed Clues

When It’s Over

Back Home

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 125 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, plays music with friends – and pursues his favorite ways to spend his time: beach bum and roaming the mountains doing botanical research. He has recently become involved in fighting the corruption that is rampant in the legal and judicial system. I love Panama’ and that is hurting this country badly.

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.

Flower Power

Clint Faraday, retired (Hah!) PI from Florida now living in Panamá, got off the bus just before Mali. He had come there from his place in Cusapín, a paradise on the peninsula in the comarca. He was declared a Ngobe Indio, the second white person to receive that honor, and had married a beautiful Ngobe woman with whom he had two children, Nicole, 8, and Nito (Clintonito) 9. He was there to visit with a few friends before he returned to Cusapín.

He greeted several people near the road and stopped to chat for a few minutes. He was going to visit Ernesto Batista, a good friend since Clint had saved his property from a scheme that was, sadly, too used in Panamá.

He moved on to the gate and went in. He was only a few meters inside when a rather pretty girl climbed through the fence and came to the path. He asked what she was doing there.

"Hi! I’m Florence Denmore. I’m from the