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1) Killer Deal
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Clint is in David for supplies. He will spend the night, then return to Quebrada Tula where he and his family are staying.He is at Peter's Bar when he meets Sam Hires, who says he's made a killer deal for a fishing boat. He gets all the permits and such to do with it. It will run out of Mariato, which Clint knows.Sam probably didn't mean "killer" deal the way it turned out.Or did he?
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Clint and Tyna are having a meal in La Tipica when a woman at a near table makes a number of loud complaints about the people at a close table and about the Indios and about Panamanians in general.Considering who the people were at the close table, Tyna says she's making a grave mistake to be denigrating those people.She didn't mean "grave" the way it turned out.
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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 "
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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...
6) Dead Still
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"I was passing by on the road and saw them there by the rock. I watched a few seconds, but they were dead still."Well, I saw there was a Squirrel Cuckoo in that bush, so figured they were watching it. They spook easy."The cuckoo flew off, so I came down here after I called and they didn't answer."There they were Like that ""Like that " was a bullet in the head.
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A woman on the beach. She is bored with life out of the city, but gets bored with life IN the city. She becomes friends with the Faradays, and set out to find adventure. She is murdered - but it wasn't her! Her son and daughter come to town. They want her back in the states for the business.What is going on?
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Tammy Sheridan, a Valley Girl, like, you know, those in the eighties, won a vacation to die for in a contest. First stop was Cancun, second stop, Managua, third stop, Bocas del Toro, forth stop, Cartagena, fifth stop, Rio de Janiero.She didn't make the fourth stop.Tammy was considered a little weird, but was liked. No one had any reason to kill her.Somebody did.
9) Deadly Game
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A man is conned into a scheme he won't aid. He kills one of the echemers, and Clint hides him from them while he investigates what is goinhg on. He ends up in a rather strange situation.
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A man is accused of killing his brother. He knows he will be cleared, that it was a misunderstood remark that led to his arrest, but he wants his wife and child to return to their home in the comarca. Clint makes sure they are safe, then considers the fact that Jesus WAS murdered, so he investigates. He finds some pretty heavy connections to drug cartels.
11) Road Kill
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Clint gets a call from Rosario Puentes, police, to say there was a road kill found on the bridge near Chiriqui. Seeing he was in David, would he like to help the investigation? "Road kill? So what?" "He was a man named Ernesto Barco. He was popular. We don't know who would kill him or why. It doesn't look like it could have been a hit and run." Oh. That kind of road kill.
13) Follow the Blood
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A dead man in a traffic accident that was no accident. There is a murder in the same group before ... no, several. Was this some kind of sick insane game where people killed each orher off? Why? were there people actually that mentally deficient?
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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!
16) Dead Aunts
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Clint is visiting friends in Culantro on his way to Quebrada Tula when Rigo, a student at the university, says his only problem lately is dead aunts. He is practicing English. Clint asks what could be the problem with dead ants? Sweep them out."What killed them? Poison?"Juan says they were all strangled."How do you strangle and ant?" Clint asked, then added, "Oh, shit "
17) 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."
18) 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?...
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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
20) Rest in Pieces
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An obnoxious tourist in the cantina gets thrown out by Clint. A friend says he was the type whose headstone would read RIP - for rest in pieces. Then he was found dead. Chopped to pieces.
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