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基本信息·出版社：Minotaur Books
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2008年02月
·ISBN：031234810X
·International Standard Book Number：031234810X
·条形码：9780312348106
·EAN：9780312348106
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Strangers are moving into Blacklin County, and none of them is any stranger than Seepy Benton, a math teacher whom the county judge suspects is a wild-eyed radical. Benton and Max Schwartz, who has opened a music store, are among the students in the Citizens’ Sheriff’s Academy, which seemed like a good idea when Sheriff Dan Rhodes presented it to the county commissioners. However, when a mobile home explodes and a dead body is found, the students become the chief suspects, and the commissioners aren’t happy. To make matters worse, there’s another murder, and one of Rhodes’s old antagonists returns with his partner in crime to cause even more trouble.
As always in Blacklin County, there are plenty of minor annoyances to go along with the major ones. For one thing, there’s a problem with the county’s Web page. The commissioners blame Rhodes, who knows nothing about the Internet but is supposed to be overseeing their online presence. Then there’s the illegal alcohol being sold in a local restaurant. It was produced in a still that Rhodes discovered after the explosion of the mobile home, and he’s sure it has some connection to the murders.
It’s another fun ride with genre veteran Bill Crider, and, once again, it’s up to Sheriff Dan Rhodes to save the day before Blacklin County becomes the crime capital of Texas.
作者简介 Bill Crider is chair of the English department at Alvin Community College. He is also the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries. He lives with his wife in Alvin, Texas.
专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyCrider's winning 15th Sheriff Dan Rhodes mystery (after 2007's
Murder Among the OWLS) pits the wry Texan against a local drug ring. Skeptical when Clearview, Tex., newcomer C.P. Benton complains that his neighbors, the Crawford brothers, are cooking meth, Rhodes finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation when the Crawford trailer explodes, leaving one of the brothers dead. But instead of finding evidence of meth, Rhodes stumbles on a still with a fresh batch of old-fashioned hooch. The remaining Crawford brother plays dumb, blaming his sibling for the illegal operation, but Rhodes doesn't buy the act. The discovery of a second still complicates matters, and Rhodes must ignore his bickering deputies and a whiny county commissioner to get to the bottom of Clearview's crime wave. Crider expertly evokes this small Texas town and its eccentric cast of characters, and his dry humor will satisfy longtime fans of this popular series.
(Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From BooklistTo Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, the saddest words of all are it seemed like a good idea at the time. The phrase seems applicable to Rhodes’ Citizen’s Sheriff Academy, which offers citizens a primer on police work and even the opportunity to visit? a pistol range, all with an eye toward developing more respect for law enforcement. But when a mobile home blows up and one of the two brothers living there is murdered, the suspect list contains more than a few Sheriff Academy alums. And, as Rhodes eliminates academy grads, they morph into unwelcome assistants or investigatory critics. Also on the sheriff’s radar screen are two new residents with sketchy backgrounds who have opened a music shop—tuba, anyone?—and, apparently, a?bootlegging operation on the side. Crider delivers his usual meticulously interwoven plot threads colored by Rhodes’ dry humor. An excellent entry in a very fine series. --Wes Lukowsky
文摘 Chapter 1
When he was in high school, Sheriff Dan Rhodes had been compelled to memorize poetry. Unfortunately, very little of it had stuck with him over the years since. He had a vague recollection of a mountaineer whose fist was a knotty hammer, and he recalled that lives of great men all remind us of something or other, but that was about it. In fact, the only rhyming lines he remembered were a couple that went “of all sad words of tongue or pen / The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”
Rhodes, having had those words stuck in his head for a large part of his life, might even have believed them at one time. Now, however, he was convinced that they were baloney. The saddest words of all were “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Not that the Citizens’ Sheriff’s Academy hadn’t been a good idea in some ways. It created a lot of interest, it had informed people about the sheriff’s department and county government, and it had generated some nice publicity for the department.
But things had gotten out of hand.
“You’ve created a bunch of vigilantes is what you’ve done,” Jack Parry told Rhodes.
Parry was the county judge. He had a fringe of white hair around his head and a round pink face that was always shaved close. If he’d had a beard, a red suit, and some granny glasses, he’d have looked like Santa Claus. Sometimes he was almost as cheerful as old Santa, but this wasn’t one of those times.
He didn’t dress like Santa, either. He wore a navy blue suit, a white shirt, and a blue-and-red-striped tie. He had on some kind of fancy shaving lotion that Rhodes, being an Aqua Velva man, couldn’t identify.
“I think you’re wrong,” Rhodes told him. “We don’t have any vigilantes.”
“I’m the county judge. I’m never wrong. Well, hardly ever. I made the mistake of speaking to that
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