Booked for a Hanging A Dan Rhodes Mystery Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 6 eBook Bill Crider
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The versatile mystery novelist Bill Crider has created a pantheon of marvelous characters, but none is more real, warm, and thoroughly delightful than Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas. In his sixth adventure, Rhodes is confronted with what seems at first to be a suicide the body of a man newly arrived in the county is found hanged in the dilapidated building he has taken over for his business. Simon Graham was a rare-book dealer. If it seems unlikely to find such an arcane entrepreneur in this extremely rural and sparsely populated part of Texas, it becomes less strange when it turns out that Graham was more con man than bibliophile. The presumed suicide begins to look more and more like murder when several newcomers swoop down on the scene and try to beat out one another to find a reputedly valuable rare book that Graham was rumored to have among his collection of hardly worthwhile items. Although Rhodes's two attenuated and eccentric jailhouse employees have gone overboard for the magic of the department's new computer, the steady, if put-upon, Rhodes and his clear-eyed observations of human nature have invariably been more useful to the solution of a crime - and that is still true in the case of the hanged book dealer.
Booked for a Hanging A Dan Rhodes Mystery Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 6 eBook Bill Crider
Who cannot like and sympathize with Sheriff Dan Rhodes? This guy gets beaten up by bad guys a lot, even though he almost always comes out on top. He fights an expanding waist line, puts up with two borderline insufferable characters in his office, deals with inept County Commissioners, and sooths disgruntled residents. Dan has his hands full but he always manages to get things right. Mr. Crider has a genuine insight into human nature and knows how people act and how they differ from one another. The stories move along with just the right blend of humor and seriousness. I've read other books in the Dan Rhodes series and have never been disappointed. I'd like to hear more about Dan's lovely wife Ivy, though. Maybe she could be more involved in some of Dan's cases. Meanwhile I'll continue to be entertained.Product details
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Booked for a Hanging A Dan Rhodes Mystery Dan Rhodes Mysteries Book 6 eBook Bill Crider Reviews
The fights look so contrived. Pandering to those who like violence to widen his appeal I suppose. The rest is a relaxed enjoyable read. I just skip the fight pages. But they may be your favorite pages.
Fun series to read
The Dan Rhodes series is a good read if you like old fashioned police procedurals, and I do. While I've never heard of a relatively small town in Texas that has so many people getting killed for so many different reasons, the local characters tend to be so realistic, drawn straight from life, I can almost change the names to people I know.
Wonderful series of fun, small-town law enforcement played out with a cast of unique and funny characters. This book continues the series with an excellent blend of warm humor with a touch of grit. Loved the story, love the series--which I'm working my way through.
Murder with humor -- that's what you get with a Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery and this book was no exception. Besides the murder mystery, the sheriff has to deal with a streaker, placate a librarian hot about paperback censorship, and, as usual, pry information out of his superannuated dispatcher and jailer.
From his Dr. Pepper habit to the obligatory load of laundry after a messy encounter, Rhodes feels like someone you know, someone you like. I look forward to my next visit.
Compulsively likeable Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with plenty of problems. Blacklin County has murders, mayhem and thefts to cope with and if the cases are not solved soon, the Texas Rangers will have to be called in. At the heart of the crime wave is an unattractive little pamphlet published in Boston in 1827 by a Bostonian (E. A. Poe). It is worth a lot (a copy made $662,500 at auction in 2009) and everyone wants it. But does it exist and if so, where is it? Villains understand the easygoing sheriff at their peril, he always gets his man, woman or book.
Must read book for those (like me) addicted to Bill Crider's Sherriff Dan Rhodes series. Introduces the Appleby twins Claude and Clyde who figure in at least one book later in the series. I got hooked on ther series through audiobook editions of the later books in the series, but there are many characters in those books who were introduced in earlier books, as well as allusions to the earlier books. That meant going back to the start of the series and catching up via the editions, since the earlier books are only available in print. This book is definitely worth the effort.
Who cannot like and sympathize with Sheriff Dan Rhodes? This guy gets beaten up by bad guys a lot, even though he almost always comes out on top. He fights an expanding waist line, puts up with two borderline insufferable characters in his office, deals with inept County Commissioners, and sooths disgruntled residents. Dan has his hands full but he always manages to get things right. Mr. Crider has a genuine insight into human nature and knows how people act and how they differ from one another. The stories move along with just the right blend of humor and seriousness. I've read other books in the Dan Rhodes series and have never been disappointed. I'd like to hear more about Dan's lovely wife Ivy, though. Maybe she could be more involved in some of Dan's cases. Meanwhile I'll continue to be entertained.
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