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Robert L. Fish

A traveler is murdered in Rio for the sake of a stuffed snake

The man in white has money to fly, but he boards a bus instead. When he arrives in Rio de Janeiro well after midnight. He is on his way to make his fortune when he spots the killers following him and knows is life is through.

A few hours after dawn, the man in white is brought to the city morgue – another anonymous corpse to be inspected by Captain José Da Silva, liaison between Interpol and the Brazilian police. Da Silva knows he is on to something when he opens the package the man left at his hotel just before the killers caught up to him. In it is a stuffed coral snake, a bizarre sight that does not faze the detective. Da Silva knows that on a late night in Rio, even dead snakes can kill.

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The Captain José Da Silva Mysteries

Isle of the Snakes

A quartet of kidnappers make the mistake of hiring Da Silva as their driver

Chico Xavier needs cash. His father has cut off his allowance, and for a student with expensive taste this is a death sentence. He and his friends arrange to kidnap one of their school friends who allows himself to be taken in exchange for a cut of the ransom. Two days of criminal behavior and they'll all live happily ever after – or Chico thinks.

To store the victim of their faked kidnapping, Chico's girlfriend pays a taxi driver for the use of his house. But the driver is no ordinary cabbie – he is Captain JoséDa Silva of Interpol. He can't tell if Chico's scheme will turn out to be tragedy or farce, and so he plays along, hoping to save the kidnappers from themselves.

The Xavier Affair

In search of a missing treasure, Da Silva returns to an old case

Off the island of Barbados, the crew of a Brazilian ocean liner hear the sounds of Carnival coming from shore. A small boat pulls alongside, and a band of steel drummers offer to play for them. As they make their rounds on the ship, the bandleader slips away. He forces one of the crew to open the ship's safe, and escapes before the song has ended, taking half a million dollars in gems with him.

The Brazilian police send detective Da Silva to investigate. He captures the thieves but never recovers the jewels. Fifteen years later, Da Silva tracks down the last living gang member and follows him back to Barbados, hoping the thief will lead him to the long-forgotten treasure – and a final solution to the case.

The Green Hell Treasure

A gang of assassins draw Da Silva into Brazil's rugged interior

George Chaney may have been raised in the roughest neighborhoods of the United States, but he's never been anywhere quite as dangerous as Paraíso. On the run from the mob, Chaney comes here in search of sanctuary. But he will find that though the city's name means paradise, its reality is much closer to hell.

Chaney is found gunned down execution style, with a tag around his neck that reads Esquadrão de Morte – death squad. He's the fourth victim of this gang of killers, and his death attracts the attention of Captain JoséDa Silva, an Interpol detective who knows that life is cheap on the Brazilian frontier, and death comes in many forms.