That old scoundrel death

Resource Information

The work That old scoundrel death represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

That old scoundrel death

Statement of responsibility

Bill Crider

Creator

• Crider, Bill, 1941-2018

Subject

• Murder -- Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Rhodes, Dan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Sheriffs -- Texas -- Fiction
• Texas -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print mystery
• Sheriff Dan Rhodes books, 25

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

A Dan Rhodes mystery

Series volume

25