Description Beloved Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with his final murder case in That Old Scoundrel Death.
In 2010, he was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame..
An English college professor for many years, he published more than seventy-five mystery, crime, Western, horror, and children\'s novels, including standalone novels and several series (Sheriff Dan Rhodes, Professor Carl Burns, Professor Sally Good, PI Truman Smith, weatherman Stanley Waters, and teenager Mike Gonzo).
About the author Bill Crider was the winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award finalist.
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.
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.
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.
Only this time, he\'s dead.
The next day, Cal Stinson turns up again.
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.
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.
Description Beloved Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes is back with his final murder case in That Old Scoundrel Death
