A Mammoth Murder [Mass Market Paperback]

Bill Crider (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 251 pages
• Publisher: Worldwide; First Thus edition (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373265972
• ISBN-13: 978-0373265978
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,946,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born and brought up in Mexia (that's pronounced Muh-HAY-uh by the natives), Texas, went to college at The University of Texas and North Texas State University, and taught high school and college classes for many years. In 1992 I retired as Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College, in Alvin, Texas. I'm married to the lovely Judy, and we have two grown children, Angela, who's an attorney in San Francisco, and Allen, who's in the music business in Austin. Other than that, I'm a pretty boring guy.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Day in the Life of Sheriff Dan, August 20, 2008

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Nancy "Stepfordmomto2" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Mammoth Murder (Hardcover)

#13 in the Dan Rhodes series, but I don't really think that this is a series you have to read in order. I haven't and don't feel that I'm missing anything.

Dan is Sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas with an odd group of deputies that make Barney and Mayberry seem normal.

Bud Turley shows up one day with a very large tooth that he swears belongs to Bigfoot. Since he and his buddy Larry have been searching the woods since childhood, this discovery doesn't seem so out of place. But life isn't that simple and now Larry is dead. the Bigfoot Convention hits town and the body of a local boy missing for 10 years shows up.

Sheriff Dan already has his hands full, if it wasn't for the feral pigs and snakes, this would just be another day in the life of a small county sheriff. This is a very funny quick read book, I recommend this series.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars superb often humorous police procedural, April 22, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Mammoth Murder (Hardcover)

In Blacklin County, Texas Bud Turley finds an enormous ancient looking tooth in a section of woods that only he and his friend Larry Colley frequent as both insist Bigfoot lives in the area and many residents either believe them or just fear these two crazy tough guys. Bud brings his treasure to the police station and asks Sheriff Dan Rhodes to safely hold it until a paleontologist from the nearby community college evaluates what Turley claims is a find that proves that Bigfoot lives in the woods; Rhodes assumes the object is the remains of a prehistoric animal.

The next day Bud is found dead with Colley screaming he was the victim of Bigfoot trying to silence him; Rhodes assumes a more human culprit killed Turley or perhaps it was the work of feral hogs. When an elderly woman is murdered nearby, Rhodes ties that death to that of Turley and has no doubt a human is the murderer. However, his effort to determine who is hampered as the crime scenes have been tampered with by Turley and Colley telling the world they can prove Bigfoot exists leading to Bigfoot mania from people coming to Blacklin Country from around the country and a few other spots.

Few authors if any can combine humor with a strong police investigation better than Bill Crider does. In Rhodes' thirteenth appearance, he serves as the serious element working on a murder case while a horde of eccentric outsiders are drawn to the area because of the alleged Bigfoot tooth finding and devastate the crime scene. As Rhodes ponders why him instead of the glamorous TV CSI dudes, A MAMMOTH MURDER is Mr. Crider at his best with a superb often humorous police procedural.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Entertainment, January 30, 2012

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RockHound - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Mammoth Murder (Kindle Edition)

I didn't buy this book on Amazon, but rather in a store.

Crider's droll tongue-in-cheek humor is at its best here, leaving one totally entertained. I bought this book in Dillon, Montana, on my way home from Montana to Utah and made the mistake of starting it in the parking lot of the store where I bought it. I ended up stopping and reading another chapter or two about every thirty miles on the way home because I couldn't stand not knowing what was going on. I finished the book before I got to the Montana-Idaho border, which isn't all that far from Dillon. And I was anxious to get home, BTW, so I wasn't really intending to read a book on the way.

I love Crider's style and his understated humor. I wish I could buy all his books, and I'm slowly working on it. A great read and recommend for anyone who likes mysteries. Heck, I didn't even READ mysteries until I discovered Crider. Thanks, Bill.