This image is the cover for the book Death Under the Moonflower, The Peter Bounty Mysteries

Death Under the Moonflower, The Peter Bounty Mysteries

A blood donor is murdered and a Texas lawman must figure out who has blood on their hands . . . “You won’t go wrong in giving Todd Downing a try”(Michael Dirda, The Washington Post).

A rare type of blood is needed for a rich man’s nephew in a Texas town—but donating seems to be a death sentence. Who would kill goodhearted souls who are trying to save a life?

Peter Bounty, the idealistic, cat-loving sheriff, is determined to find out. But he’s about to step into a maze involving a strange doctor who’s been shunned by the locals, plus politics, potential grudges, and questions of inheritance rights, in this 1930s mystery.

Todd Downing

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.

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