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Carregando... That Old Scoundrel Deathde Bill Crider
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) jamespurcell | Jul 26, 2020 |   ) TanteLeonie | Aug 11, 2019 | Some sort of road rage incident just happened before Rhodes came by in his patrol car. When all was said and done, the meth head decided to put a real scare in the other driver to teach him one heck of a lesson. Then Sheriff Rhodes went and showed up making things very complicated in the mind of the meth head known to one and all as Kenny Lambert. He has a history with local law enforcement going back a few years so Rhodes knows the man is not terribly bright on a good day. This is not a good day. Rhodes also knows he screwed up by not figuring out what was going on fast enough and getting backup headed to them. He is on his own and things do not look good. That is until Kenny Lambert gets distracted by the victim. His action allows Sheriff Rhodes to get the gun and arrest Kenny. All things considered, the victim is relatively okay and introduces himself as Carl Stinson. He plans on going home and cleaning himself up. He promises to come by the jail later and do the paperwork to bring charges against Kenny. Charges that Kenny will get along with the ones Sheriff Rhodes plans to bring because of having a gun pointed at him. While it is not exactly normal procedure to let a victim go home and change before coming by the jail later to do the paperwork, Carl Stinson did promise to come by and should be in town for a while as he said he had plans to go look at the old school building nearby in Thurston. Some of the locals are pushing hard to finally bring the old building down before it comes down and maybe kills somebody in the process. The place is not very safe. Stinson says he is in town to see it as his grandmother went to school there. With another promise to appear at the jail, Sheriff Rhodes agrees and Cal Stinson drives off. Sheriff Rhodes will come to regret that decision. He is never seen alive again. Instead, he is soon found very much dead in the old school building. His name was not Cal Stinson either. Who he was and why he was shot in the back of the head are just two of the questions that Sheriff Dan Rhodes must answer in that That Old Scoundrel Death: A Dan Rhodes Mystery. As one would expect, this is billed as the final installment of the great series. The book features all the usual characters that readers have enjoyed for so long. At work, as has been the case for many years now, is a primary mystery, a couple of secondary ones, a dash of humor, plenty of Texas wisdom and scenery, and the occasional Dr Pepper with the real sugar reference. Stir all that together under the able touch of author Bill Crider and you have another very good read. If That Old Scoundrel Death: A Dan Rhodes Mystery is to be the final installment of the series, it ends well and in a very good place. One can’t ask for more than that. That Old Scoundrel Death: A Dan Rhodes Mystery Bill Crider http://www.billcrider.com Minotaur Books (Thomas Dunne Books) http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com/ February 19, 2019 ISBN #978-1250165633 Hardback 288 Pages $27.99 My very special thanks to Angela Crider Neary who provided an ARC of her Dad’s final book. Kevin R. Tipple ©2019 (  ) kevinrtipple | Jan 20, 2019 | As always from Bill Crider, it's a great cozy mystery set in a sparsely populated county and filled with his signature humor and characters who truly are. The publisher's blurb gives some idea of what to expect except for the arson, and spoilers are just not the thing. Don't want to do the recap thing either. The only sad thing that I will relate is that while the sheriff is waffling on the idea of retirement, Bill Crider had no choice as he lost his last battle after finishing this book. I requested and received a free ebook copy from St Martin's Press via NetGalley. Thank you! ( ) jetangen4571 | Jan 12, 2019 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieSheriff Dan Rhodes (25)
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 this time, he's dead. His body is found in the dilapidated school that's about to be razed, and the woman who let Cal onto the premises claims he gave his name as Bruce Wayne. Whoever is he is, he was shot in the back of the head, and a piece of chalk lies inches away from his hand, under a lone line on the chalkboard, his last words unfinished. Between not-so-bright hoodlums who can't seem to stay on the right side of the law, powerful families in town who are ready to go to battle over whether the old school should come down, and trying futilely to get private detective Seepy Benton to stop making mountains of mole hills, Sheriff Rhodes is beginning to wonder if retirement might be as good as it sounds. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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