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[eBook News] Complete 'CD Grimes' Detective Series Published

CD Grimes Private Detective series listed at Lulu.com

The seventeen books in the CD Grimes, billionaire private eye murder mystery series by C. D. Moulton is finally edited and polished and listed at lulu.com
The first two books in the series are collections of shorts, and are concerned with the original CD Grimes, PI. They are written in the style of the fifties and sixties, starting when CD was in his early twenties and met Sheila Crane, heiress, and married her. CD raises a family while solving murders in Grombey County.
Book three, CD's Last Case/CD's First Case, is the case where his grandson takes over the agency, the estate, the companies, and the love of detective work. The original CD dies after solving the case, leaving the solution in a sealed envelope to be opened when the new CD solves it. The new CD meets and falls instantly in love with Alma.

In Book four, CD moves to Florida, where the rest of the adventures take place - well, except that CD travels all over the world on some cases, and one, "You Can't Go Home", takes place mostly back in Grombey County. CD's cases are often taken from the headlines in the newspapers, but from an unexpected angle.

C. D. Moulton is a self-described "Radical middle-of-the-roader" politically, and doesn't mind displaying his disgust of politicians and politics. He doesn't mind "offending extremists of any stripe" in his writings, going so far as to put on the back cover of Lab Test: "If you are one who thinks Israel can do no wrong, do not read this book. It was written in the time Israel had spies in this country and military experts training drug cartels in Colombia". Critics have noted that Moulton's style is easy to read, and is not based strongly on description, but more on interaction of characters and situations. They are fairly unanimous in stating that one wants to keep reading from the first page, though Moulton tends to somewhat over-complicate his
plots, in some cases.

Moulton is also described by most of being fair to his readers. He lays the clues out to be found, and never runs in some minor character on the last page to be the killer.

Moulton's style makes it easy to picture the work as a movie. The descriptions are Hitchcockian, in that they are sparse, leaving much to the imagination, but have enough substance to suggest what one will see. Even the few "Action" books, such as the last two in the series to date, allow the special effects of the mind to supply the background and features alike.

I think Ivan Arkov best described the series back in 1992, when only a few were written. "While there isn't a literary masterpiece in the lot, neither is there any trash. These are very readable books. In comparison with today's market, I will rate the entire series as being worth decidedly more than the price."
I concur - P. M. Solomon

The CD Grimes series is available through Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/maitaman in POD and download. The POD books sell for $10 - $15, and the download price is $2.50. The books range from 196 - 318 pages.

posted by Brad @ 9:38 AM