Bill Crider
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
DOWN-HOME DEAD. What are the Crawford brothers cooking up in their trailer in the middle of Blacklin County? Sheriff Dan Rhodes receives a complaint that it's meth, a growing menace in the East Texas woods, and a likely culprit when the trailer explodes and one of the siblings is found dead. To his surprise, Rhodes discovers a still with a fresh batch of moonshine, and clear evidence the explosion was no accident. And he's not buying the surviving...
Author
Series
Sheriff Dan Rhodes books volume 23
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Life is never easy for Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Even in a small Texas county, there's always something going on for a sheriff to look into, whether it's an attempted robbery, a marijuana patch guarded by an alligator, or a murder. This time the murdered man seems to be connected to a string of recent burglaries, but just how isn't easy to figure out. It takes some time and another murder before Sheriff Rhodes discovers the answers.Survivors Will Be Shot...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beloved Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with his final murder case in That Old Scoundrel Death . When a man is run off the road by a thug with a snake tattooed around his neck, Sheriff Dan Rhodes knows it's his duty to stop and help out. The grateful victim gives his name as Cal Stinson, on his way to the nearby town of Thurston to take a look at the old school building before the city tears it down. The next day, Cal Stinson turns up again. Only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When an infestation of feral pigs culminates in a murder in Blacklin County, Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds the ensuing investigation complicated by angry hog hunters, a crusading talk-show host, a bounty hunter, and the reappearance of a troublemaking motorcycle duo.
8) Muttketeer!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Someone has killed the preacher's daughter in Dry Springs, but just as a young Mexican boy is being fitted for a noose, the town drunk talks and the list of suspects grows,
The author's expertise as a writer of mysteries (the Sheriff Rhoades mysteries) adds greatly to this eminently readable Western. It is competently written in an economic style, fast and sure in accomplishing its goal to provide an attention-riveting whodunit. Lizzie Randall, the...
11) Texas vigilante
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Taine was a newlywed working the dry land in 1880s Texas when the desperados came. They killed her husband, raped her and left her for dead. But she hunted them down and, along the way, found an inner strength that no man can match. Now ruthless killer Angel Ware has engineered a bold escape from a prison wagon. Blaming his sister Sue for his arrest, Angel and his gang track her down to Ellie's ranch, mount a bloody attack, and take Sue's child....
14) A mammoth murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English