A Very Scenic Trap

By C. D. Moulton

Nancy Ann Gilders had married Harry Silvers after knowing him only eleven days. He was very wealthy, she was comfortable, but not rich.
They spent four years in a very happy marriage. They traveled to many places.
Then he was murdered with a very rare and hard-to-trace poison.
He left a daughter and son and Nancy Ann.
All three had apparently been cleared in the murder. All three became very personally wealthy at his death.
Nancy Ann had to get away. She made plans with the daughter to take a trip.
Then it got scary. Was someone trying to get rid of all three heirs?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. D. Moulton
• Release date: Jul 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201434564

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A Very Scenic Trap

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Nancy Ann Gilders had married Harry Silvers after knowing him only eleven days. He was very wealthy, she was comfortable, but not rich.

They spent four years in a very happy marriage. They traveled to many places.

Then he was murdered with a very rare and hard-to-trace poison.

He left a daughter and son and Nancy Ann.

All three had apparently been cleared in the murder. All three became very personally wealthy at his death.

Nancy Ann had to get away. She made plans with the daughter to take a trip.

Then it got scary. Was someone trying to get rid of all three heirs?

Contents

About the author

The Funeral

The Investigation

The Trip Begins

Strange Happenings

A Question

Where and When?

Background Noise

And the Emmy Goes to...

Under the Circumstances

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 150 books as of May 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.

A Very Scenic Trap

The Funeral

Nancy Ann Gilders-Silvers choked back a sob as the casket was slid into the vault.

This was the end of her whirlwind marriage? This was the end of four years of traveling around the world seeing exotic places? This was the end of romantic nights and exciting people?

It wasn’t going to be that way. It was the end of Harry’s life, but not hers. She was twenty three and Harry had been fifty seven. Everyone said it would not work and that she was only after his money. She had made it plain to the world that she had a very good, if not perfect, marriage and that she had made Harry Silvers happier, as he often said, than any man had a right to be.

She put a hand on the casket and it was placed. The party slowly filed out of the mausoleum.

Francine Dina Silvers, Harry’s twenty two year old daughter and Gerald Roland Silvers, Harry’s twenty six year old son, joined her at the long black limousine for the ride to the estate. She had gotten along with her stepchildren (even though Gerry was older than she) quite well after the initial suspicion and resentment for taking their deceased mother’s place. They were intelligent and realistic people and knew it was psychological and that their father had been a single widower for nine years. It was inevitable that he would someday seek a companion. He could not be expected to spend the rest of his life without companionship. That he was in love with Nancy Ann was obvious and