Booked for a Hanging (Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mystery)

A rare-book dealer found swinging from a rope in Claflin County sets newlywed Dan Rhodes on an investigation that sends him into a world peopled by the wealthy and manipulative. By the author of The Texas Capitol Murders.

Down-home humor, rural shenanigans and sait-of-the-earth characters make up for predictability in this enjoyable, albeit unsurprising, tale. In his sixth outing (after Evil at the Root), Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, finds the body of book dealer Simon Graham hanging from the rafters of an old college building he had planned to restore. Graham's business partner, his erstwhile girlfriend and a rival book dealer all lay claim to a copy of Poe's Tamerlane, a rare collection of poetry worth $250,000, which Graham had purportedly discovered. At the same time, Rhodes deals with a rancher whose cattle has been stolen, a man who frequents a local restaurant naked, the introduction of computers to the sheriff's office and his recent marriage. Balanced, agreeable and ambling apply equally to Crider's story and his hero.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Crider adds one more adventure to the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. Here, the Texan investigates the hanging death of a rare-books dealer.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.