Color Her Dead

By C. D. Moulton

Susan Burch was a strange sort of person. She was an artist, very able, in paints. She used substitute colors, getting some amazing results. It was a talent she had noticed as a child. She would change tones and hues in all of a painting.
She had a commission in Isla Tormenta, a small lush Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. A wealthy man there wanted his girlfriends and their friends painted, using the technique.
He had a wife and young daughter. They were, to understate it, not amused.
Then, the murders....

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. D. Moulton
• Release date: Jul 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201966621

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Color Her Dead

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblances to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

Susan Burch was a strange sort of person. She was an artist, very able, in paints. She used substitute colors, getting some amazing results. It was a talent she had noticed as a child. She would change tones and hues in all of a painting.

She had a commission in Isla Tormenta, a small lush Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. A wealthy man there wanted his girlfriends and their friends painted, using the technique.

He had a wife and young daughter. They were, to understate it, not amused.

Then, the murders....

Contents

About the author

A Proposition

Isla Tormenta

Another Death

An Easier Solution

Home and Fame and that Kind of Crap

About the author

CD was born in Lakeland, Florida, in 1938. He is educated in genetics and botany. He has traveled extensively, particularly when he was a rock rhythm guitarist with some well-known bands in the late sixties and early seventies. He has worked as a high steel worker and as a longshoreman, clerk, orchidist, bar owner, salvage yard manager, and landscaper and more.

CD began writing fiction in 1984 and has more than 300 books published in SciFi, murder, orchid culture, and various other fields.

He now resides in Gualaca, Chiriqui, Panamá, where he continues research into epiphytic plants and plays music with friends. He loves the culture of the indigenous people. He funds those he can afford through the universities, where they have all excelled. The Indios are very intelligent people, they are simply too poor (in material things and money. Culturally, they are very wealthy) to pursue higher education.

CD loves Panamá and the people, despite horrendous experiences (Free e-book; Fading Paradise). He plans to spend the rest of his life in the paradise that is Panamá

CD is involved in research of natural cancer cure at this time. It is based on a plant that has been in use for centuries, is safe, available, and cheap. Information about this cure is free on the FaceBook page: Ambrosia peruviana for cancer.

A

Proposition

Susan Burch looked at the painting she had done of a dog.

It was probably a beautiful animal, but she did not like dogs. Or cats.

She had finally taken some digital photos of the dog. It wouldn’t sit still long enough for her to decide how to present it. The owner said it was to be like a dream scene, using Susan’s special technique. She managed to get the dog in the right setting, a background of a wide lawn that dropped toward the pond, which she would turn into a sea. The dog had to