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A strange epidemic of suicides puzzles the authorities. But is
something else, something far more sinister, at work behind the
scenes? An exciting Hugh Rennert mystery novel!
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Calico Kids (Paperback)
Todd Downing
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Hugh Rennert, now retired from the U. S. customs service and
cultivating a citrus grove in Cameron County, Texas, again finds
himself south of the border, motoring through the mountains to
Victoria to settle a legal dispute with the Mexican owners of a
tract of land bordering his own. Stranded by the chipi chipi-an
endless drizzling, enervating rain-and the landslide that it
produces, Rennert seeks shelter-along with the ten other people who
have preceded him-in a providentially located ranch house. At least
the ranch house, "a square, one-storied, fortresslike house of
adobe roofed with tiles," seems providentially located-until the
people stranded there start dying Who will survive this deadliest
of nights over Mexico? Tonight no one is safe: not the frightened
schoolteacher Miss Pirtle and her devil-may-care driver Mr.
Woodmansee, nor those toughs Bohannon and Lurcott, nor the
mysterious Mr. Smith, his daughter Wilma and her pistol-packing
beau, Keith Kerwick, nor the exceedingly irritating Gulliver
Damson, Ph. D., nor the Midwestern oil tycoon Jesse Elkins and his
fatally attractive, decades younger wife, Vera, nor even Hugh
Rennert himself. Night over Mexico is the final Hugh Rennert
mystery. Does it chronicle Hugh Rennert's last night on Earth? Read
on and see what happens in this superb Golden Age detective novel,
originally published in 1937, about which the Saturday Review
raved: "Actions and suspense at concert pitch throughout,
characterization vivid, background exotic, method and motive of
murder unique. . . . Excellent." As the New York Times Book Review
put it, Todd Downing "has again shown us that Mexico, in the hands
of one who knows it, makes an excellent background for a mystery
story."
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The Parish (Paperback)
Todd Downing
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The fully revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling
guide to bike maintenance from the world's leading authority on
cycling
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With troubleshooting sections to quickly identify and correct
common problems, 450 photographs and 40 drawings to clarify all the
step-by-step directions so even the complete neophyte can get
repairs right the first time, and Web sites and phone numbers of
bicycle and parts manufacturers, this is truly the ultimate bicycle
repair and maintenance manual. Now better than ever, the newest
edition contains the latest information on component kits and
carbon fork specifications.
EXPLORE. Mystic East is the second in a series of world resources
for Arrowflight Second Editon. A new realm of discovery and
adventure await you in the far eastern corner of the world - a
realm of mystery, magic and martial arts, of bizarre creatures and
strange technology. An empire on the threshold of transformation as
contact is made with the outside world. What secrets will you
uncover in the Mystic East? Profile of the D'JUNN EMPIRE: New
racial types & ethnic variants Over TWO-DOZEN new combat skills
Over A DOZEN new monsters & exotic creatures (including SEVEN
new types of undead) SIXTEEN fully statted NPCs (with adventure
seeds) Over TWO-DOZEN new weapons (unique to D'junn) Including
population, culture, economy, character backgrounds, &
region-specific details.
The sounding of the last trumpet in the bullring that shimmering
hot day in Matamoras, Mexico was meant to signal the kill of the
bull by the bullfighter. Instead it was the bullfighter, Carlos
Campos, who violently died, horrifically gored by the bull. But
Carlos Campos' death was not a mere matter of chance-it was
deliberately devised by a malign human hand Carlos Campos was not,
it seems, the first of the murderer's victims. Nor was he to be the
last. Hugh Rennert, retired U. S. Customs Service agent turned
Cameron County, Texas citrus farmer (and still something of an
amateur detective), believes a serial killer is on the loose in the
borderlands. What is the murderer's motive for these terrible
slayings? And when will they ever end? Teaming up with Peter
Bounty, the slick, homespun Cameron County sheriff, Hugh Rennert is
again on the case, hoping to silence a serial killer's savage tune.
It will be a clever reader indeed who beats Hugh Rennert to
spotting the killer and the motive for the crimes, but everyone
should have a grand time trying. "If you don't like this one," one
Midwestern reviewer bluntly declared in 1937, the year The Last
Trumpet was originally published, "you're pretty hopeless."
U. S. Customs Agent John Payne was hot on the trail of the party he
suspected of smuggling Mexican antiquities across the Texas border
into the United States. Too hot on the trail to be left alive On
October 27, 1933, Payne was found dead, strangled, in his San
Antonio hotel room. Three days after the discovery of Payne's
savagely slain body, senior Customs Agent Hugh Rennert is in Mexico
City to join the thirteen members of the Inter-American Tours
party, late of San Antonio. Rennert is hunting for Payne's
calculating and callous killer. The party of American tourists
seeing the sights around Mexico City initially seems innocuous
enough, yet in actuality Murder travels masked among them,
patiently waiting, as the macabre Mexican holiday Dia de los
Muertos (Day of the Dead) approaches, for the opportunity to strike
again. Who will be the next to die by violence, before Hugh Rennert
finally cracks the case and corners his quarry? First published in
1933, Murder on Tour is the first in Todd Downing's acclaimed
series of seven Hugh Rennert detective novels. Read it and see why
the New York Times Book Review proclaimed Murder on Tour a "well
fashioned baffler" with "characterization . . . contrived with
unusual skill."
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