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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2008
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Hugh Rennert Mystery

Murder on the Tropic (Dec-2012)
Night Over Mexico (Dec-2012)
The Case of the Unconquered Sisters (Dec-2012)
The Last Trumpet (Dec-2012)
Vultures in the Sky (Dec-2012)
Murder on Tour (Mar-2013)

A Sheriff Peter Bounty Mystery

Death Under the Moonflower (Dec-2012)
The Lazy Lawrence Murders (Dec-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

Airship Daedalus

1 - A Shield Against the Darkness (Sep-2017)
3 - The Golden City (Mar-2018)
4 - Legend of the Savage Isle (Mar-2019)
5 - The Arctic Menace (May-2020)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



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    When Mura the Siamese cat screams, Death is sure to strike At Madame Fournier's quarantined pension in Taxco, Mexico's fabled ""silver city,"" Death remorselessly stalks new prey. Among these confined guests-the actress on the run, the playboy i...



  • An American family in Mexico hosts a group of archaeologists -- butis there an assassin among them? “Satisfactorily sinister . . . class-A sleuthing” (Saturday Review).   “Unconquered” is the family motto of the Faudrees,...



  • 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 ri...



  • In this Mexico-set mystery with “excellent atmosphere” featuring a sheriff and an amateur sleuth, a bullfighter is dead -- but was the killer man or beast (Kirkus Reviews)?   In Matamoras, Mexico, the last trumpet has sounded in the bullring...



  • The ex-Governor of Texas is traveling with family in preparation for an inadvisable wedding when he is suddenly murdered. His old friend Sheriff Peter Bounty is on hand to try and solve the case. The ex-Governor had enemies, and there are plenty o...



  • 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 Haciend...



  • 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...



  • A customs agent must track down a killer on a train barreling across the Texas border into Mexico . . .   When a train leaves Laredo en route to Mexico City, the trip turns terrifying as one passenger after another falls victim to...



  • 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, strang...






  • "If you're looking for a good adventure story with all the best elements of classic pulp, along with dashing Heroes, women with agency, a little romance, and a whole lot of suspense then this is the book for you Couldn't stop until I'd read the last...



  • Eight authors. Ten stories. A world of possibilities. The AEGISverse just got a lot bigger. Based on the setting and characters of Airship Daedalus, A.E.G.I.S. Tales collects exciting new works of fiction written in the style of the pulps from the 19...



  • April, 1927 finds adventurer-pilot Jack McGraw and occult expert Dorothy “Doc” Starr extracting a priceless Celtic artifact from a long-sealed tomb on a windswept Scottish island. Following a shootout with Silver Star commandos and a desperate do...



  • May, 1927 finds the combined crews of the airships Daedalus and Percival in coordinated pursuit of the Silver Star commando forces that murdered Duke's original crew and took Rivets hostage.Intervening in a tribal uprising in Kenya, Captain Stratosph...



  • THIRTEEN WEIRD AND WONDROUS TALES populate this anthology by the author of the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series. Spanning a thirty-year catalog and often satirizing the 20th century ideal of the nuclear family and social mores, Primordial Soup ...



  • A cat-and-mouse game across the skies.A summoned apocalypse.The fate of the world hangs in the balance.June, 1929 finds the Daedalus crew in the Peruvian mountains, working with an old comrade to retrieve a sacred artifact stolen from a native tribe....



  • A fierce battle at the top of the world against a most ferocious enemy.November, 1928 finds Dorothy Doc Starr and Captain Stratosphere Jack McGraw raising their daughter Ellen on a ranch in the Hollywood Hills, when the local AEGIS bureau chief taps ...



  • One summer became the adventure of a lifetime.Summer, 1982. When two local teens go missing from the riverside town of Calico, Oregon, a middle school nerd steeped in wild conspiracy theories steps in to investigate.With a posse consisting of a busbo...



  • A widowed mother fleeing her grief.A preteen girl lost in the dark.A soldier of God stalked by the demons of his past.A supernatural presence threatens a small town.Liz's faith in her church had always been rock solid. Until the day her husband was r...



  • A cat-and-mouse game across the skies.A summoned apocalypse.The fate of the world hangs in the balance.June, 1929 finds the Daedalus crew in the Peruvian mountains, working with an old comrade to retrieve a sacred artifact stolen from a native tribe....






  • Eight authors. Ten stories. Round Two.The AEGISverse just grew a whole lot more.Based on the setting and characters of Airship Daedalus, AEGIS Tales 2 collects exciting new works of fiction written in the style of the pulps from the 1920s & ‘30...



  • The revolution will be streamcast.San Francisco, 2065.In the cold, uncaring shadow of a crowded city, the forgotten claw out a meager existence. Hope isn’t a luxury they can afford. When a new drug floods the streets, some local vigilantes find...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Todd Downing has published 21 books.

Todd Downing does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sakuru, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Todd Downing, The Cat Screams, was published in April 2008.

Yes. Todd Downing has 2 series.