Murder in Four Parts (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery Series) - Hardcover

Crider, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410419983 ISBN 13: 9781410419989

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2009

Synopsis

When he is asked to join the Clearview Barbershop Chorus, Sheriff Dan Rhodes suspects that there may be an ulterior motive behind the invitation, a suspicion that is confirmed when the director of the chorus is murdered.

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About the Author

Bill Crider serves as chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College. His first book in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series won an Anthony Award for Best First Novel. His short story "Cranked", which appeared in Damn Near Dead, was nominated for an Edgar Award. He lives in Alvin, Texas.

From Publishers Weekly

Sheriff Dan Rhodes claims he can't join the Clearview Community Barbershop Chorus because he's too busy busting crime twenty-four hours a day in Crider's wryly humorous if somewhat sleepy 16th sleuthathon (after 2008's Of All Sad Words). Chief among those crimes is the murder of Lloyd Berry, the chorus director and local florist, whose head somebody bashed in with a pipe cutter wrench. Also causing the Texas lawman considerable consternation is locating the owner of a chicken-eating alligator, calming down two feuding neighbors and dissecting the cause of the chorus's internal strife. Then there's the nude bozo doing jumping jacks in front of what Rhodes calls the Lawj Mahal, the big new law offices of the county's most successful attorney. Trying to solve the various puzzles leads Rhodes into some less than agreeable situations, like pulling a Charles Bronson—chasing a bad guy on top of a moving train—at the mystery's satisfying climax. (Feb.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1410419983
• ISBN 13: 9781410419989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 385