Todd Downing

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2008
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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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: 22 titles

  • The Cat Screams

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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...

  • The Case of the Unconquered Sisters

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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,...

  • Death Under the Moonflower

    A Sheriff Peter Bounty Mystery

    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...

  • The Last Trumpet

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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 Lazy Lawrence Murders

    A Sheriff Peter Bounty Mystery

    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...

  • Murder on the Tropic

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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...

  • Night Over Mexico

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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...

  • Vultures in the Sky

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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...

  • Murder on Tour

    A Hugh Rennert Mystery

    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...



  • A Shield Against the Darkness

    Airship Daedalus - 1

    "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...

  • AEGIS Tales

    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...

  • The Golden City

    Airship Daedalus - 3

    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...

  • Legend of the Savage Isle

    Airship Daedalus - 4

    The hunt for an elusive enemy becomes an epic voyage of discovery & horror.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 ...

  • Primordial Soup Kitchen

    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 ...

  • Airship Daedalus - The First Missions

    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....

  • The Arctic Menace

    Airship Daedalus - 5

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

  • Calico Kids

    Summer, 1982. When two local teens go missing from the riverside town of Calico, Oregon, it falls to a middle school nerd steeped in wild conspiracy theories to investigate.With a posse consisting of a busboy, a delinquent, an L.A. transplant, and a ...

  • The Parish

    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...

  • Raiders of the Red Storm

    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....



  • AEGIS Tales 2

    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...

  • Sakuru

    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...

  • Return of the Calico Kids

    The adventure of a lifetime continues.Summer, 1984. A mystery unfolds in the riverside town of Calico, Oregon, including the apparent suicide of a law enforcement officer, the sudden appearance of shadowy operatives, and a mothballed government proje...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Todd Downing has published 22 books.

Todd Downing does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Return of the Calico Kids, was published in October 2024.

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

Yes. Todd Downing has 2 series.
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