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An American customs agent looks into a murder in Mexico as a hurricane bears down on the tropical landscape in this "first-rate" mystery ( Kirkus Reviews).
US Customs Service agent and amateur sleuth Hugh Rennert has been invited to Hacienda Flores, an isolated mountain retreat in Mexico. A consortium of Texas investors with an interest in the place have asked him to investigate a murder that could be bad for business . . .
But confronting a killer isn't the only danger Rennert faces as an epic storm approaches in this mystery filled with twists and turns that, according to the New York Times Book Review, are "guaranteed to keep the reader interested and greatly puzzled."
US Customs Service agent and amateur sleuth Hugh Rennert has been invited to Hacienda Flores, an isolated mountain retreat in Mexico. A consortium of Texas investors with an interest in the place have asked him to investigate a murder that could be bad for business . . .
But confronting a killer isn't the only danger Rennert faces as an epic storm approaches in this mystery filled with twists and turns that, according to the New York Times Book Review, are "guaranteed to keep the reader interested and greatly puzzled."
An American customs agent looks into a murder in Mexico as a hurricane bears down on the tropical landscape in this "first-rate" mystery ( Kirkus Reviews).
US Customs Service agent and amateur sleuth Hugh Rennert has been invited to Hacienda Flores, an isolated mountain retreat in Mexico. A con...
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Todd Downing, Oklahoma's first successful writer of detective novels, was born at Atoka, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in 1902. His paternal grandmother, Millissa Armstrong, part of the 1830 Choctaw migration from Mississippi, was George T. Downing's second wife. Their son, Samuel, Todd's father, born in the Choctaw Nation in 1872, served in Troop M of the Rough Riders, and married Maude Miller in 1899.
Todd Downing, Oklahoma's first successful writer of detective novels, was born at Atoka, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in 1902. His paternal grandmother, Millissa Armstrong, part of the 1830 Choctaw migration from Mississippi, was George T. Downing's second wife. Their son, Samuel, Todd's fath...
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