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Bill Crider

(1941 - 2018)

aka Jack Buchanan, Jack MacLane

Bill Crider is the Anthony Award-winning author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mysteries (Red, White, and Blue Murder) and the Professor Sally Good Mysteries (A Knife in the Back). His short story "Cranked", which appeared in Damn Near Dead, was a finalist for an Edgar Award. Crider served for many years as chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College.

Genres: Mystery, Children's Fiction, Horror, Western, Thriller

Series

Killmaster (with Nick Carter and Jack Davis)
144. The Coyote Connection (1981)

Dan Rhodes
   1. Too Late to Die (1986)
   2. Shotgun Saturday Night (1987)
   3. Cursed to Death (1988)
   4. Death on the Move (1989)
   5. Evil at the Root (1990)
   6. Booked for a Hanging (1992)
   7. Murder Most Fowl (1994)
   8. Winning Can Be Murder (1996)
   9. Death By Accident (1998)
   10. A Ghost of a Chance (2000)
   11. A Romantic Way to Die (2001)
   12. Red, White, and Blue Murder (2003)
   13. A Mammoth Murder (2006)
   14. Murder Among the O.W.L.S. (2007)
   15. Of All Sad Words (2008)
   16. Murder in Four Parts (2009)
   17. Murder in the Air (2010)
   18. The Wild Hog Murders (2011)
   19. Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen (2012)
   20. Compound Murder (2013)
   21. Half in Love with Artful Death (2014)
   22. Between the Living and the Dead (2015)
   23. Survivors Will Be Shot Again (2016)
   24. Dead, to Begin With (2017)
   25. That Old Scoundrel Death (2019)
   The Blacklin County Files (2012) (with Judy Crider)

Carl Burns
   1. One Dead Dean (1988)
   2. Dying Voices (1989)
   3. A Dangerous Thing (1994)
   4. Dead Soldiers (2004)

Truman Smith
   1. Dead On the Island (1991)
   2. Gator Kill (1992)
   3. When Old Men Die (1994)
   4. The Prairie Chicken Kill (1996)
   5. Murder Takes a Break (1997)

Mike Gonzo
   Mike Gonzo and the Sewer Monster (1996)
   Mike Gonzo and the Almost Invisible Man (1996)
   Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror (1997)

Stanley Waters (with Willard Scott)
1. Murder Under Blue Skies (1998)
2. Murder in the Mist (1998)

Ellie Taine
1. Outrage At Blanco (1998)
2. Texas Vigilante (1999)

Professor Sally Good
   1. Murder is an Art (1999)
   2. A Knife in the Back (2002)
   3. A Bond with Death (2004)

Humphrey Bogart
1. We'll Always Have Murder (2003)

Ted Stephens (with Clyde Wilson)
1. Houston Homicide (2007)
2. Mississippi Vivian (2010)

Novels

   Ryan Rides Back (1988)
   Keepers of the Beast (1988) (as by Jack MacLane)
   Galveston Gunman (1988)
   Goodnight Moon (1988) (as by Jack MacLane)
   Goodnight Moom (1989) (as by Jack MacLane)
   Blood Dreams (1989) (as by Jack MacLane)
   A Time for Hanging (1989)
   Rest in Peace (1990) (as by Jack MacLane)
   Medicine Show (1990)
   A Vampire Named Fred (1990)
   Just Before Dark (1990) (as by Jack MacLane)
   Blood Marks (1991)
   The Texas Capitol Murders (1992)
   The Girl Who Wanted to Be Sherlock Holmes (2011)

Omnibus

Nine Deadly Lives (2015) (with Angela Crider, Brandy Herr DesPres, Mollie Hunt, C A Jamison, Mariah Lynne, Deborah MacGillivray, Clay More, Isabella Norse, Cheryl Pierson, Mary Price, Faye Rapoport, Rochelle Spencer and Livia J Washburn)

Collections

   The Nightime is the Right Time (1991)
   Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe (2001) (with Terence Faherty, Wendi Lee and Aileen Schumacher)
   The Spider Chronicles (2007) (with Mort Castle, Shannon Denton, Chuck Dixon, Steve Englehart, Ron Fortier, Joe Gentile, Rich Harvey, John Helfers and John Jakes)
   The Nighttime is the Righttime (2010)
   I Am a Roving Gambler (2012)
   Raining Willie & Cranked (2012)
   Tales from the Otherverse (2015) (with Lou Antonelli, Scott A Cupp, John Hegenberger, Scott Dennis Parker, Cheryl Pierson, Richard Prosch, James Reasoner, Robert E Vardeman and Keith West)
   Eight Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2017)

Novellas

   My Heart Cries for You (1992)
   Death's Brother (2011)
   What a Croc! (2011)
   A Werewolf Named Wayne (2011)

Series contributed to

Adventures of Wishbone
8. Muttketeer! (1997)

Dead Man
9. Carnival of Death (2012) (with Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin)
The Dead Man Vol 3 (omnibus) (2012) (with James Daniels, Lee Goldberg, Jude Hardin and William Rabkin)

Anthologies edited

Live Noir or Die Trying (2010)

Anthologies containing stories by Bill Crider

Dark Destiny (1994)
Werewolves (1995)
Celebrity Vampires (1995)
White House Horrors (1996)
Pawn of Chaos (1996)
Cat Crimes Through Time (1999)

Short stories

	"But I Feel the Bright Eyes..." (1994)
	King of the Night (1995)
	The Nighttime Is the Right Time (1995)
	The Captive Soul (1996)
	The Ghost and Mr Truman (1996)
	Tinseltown Follies of 1948 (1999)

Awards

Anthony Awards Best First Novel winner (1987) : Too Late to Die

Bill Crider recommends

Nights of the Red Moon (2010)
Milton T Burton
"Milton Burton writes about East Texas with wit, spice, and insight. His Sequoya County sheriff, Bo Handel, has a shrewd mind to go along with his fancy pistol. He's the kind of man Sheriff Dan Rhodes would share a Dr Pepper with any day."

A Killing At Cotton Hill (2013)
(Samuel Craddock Mysteries, book 1)
Terry Shames
"Readers are going to love [Samuel Craddock] and they'll want to visit him and Jarrett Creek, Texas, often."

Killing Trail (2015)
(Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, book 1)
Margaret Mizushima
"Margaret Mizushima's KILLING TRAIL introduces a fine new crime-fighting team, Mattie Lu Cobb and her partner, Robo, who happens to be a dog. They're put to the test in Timber Creek, a small town in Colorado, and the result is a satisfying mystery with a couple of cops you're going to be glad to meet. Check it out."

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