Bill Crider - Dan Rhodes 20 - Compound Murder (28 page)

Winning Can Be Murder

Murder Most Fowl

Booked for a Hanging

Evil at the Root

Death on the Move

Cursed to Death

Shotgun Saturday Night

Too Late to Die

PROFESSOR SALLY GOOD MYSTERIES

A Bond with Death

Murder Is an Art

A Knife in the Back

PROFESSOR CARL BURNS MYSTERIES

… A Dangerous Thing

Dying Voices

One Dead Dean

Dead Soldiers

About the Author

Bill Crider is the winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award Finalist. A college English professor for many years, he’s published more than seventy-five crime, Western, and horror novels, as well as a number of children’s books. He lives with his wife in Alvin, Texas.

Visit his Web site at
www.billcrider.com
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

COMPOUND MURDER.
Copyright © 2013 by Bill Crider. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Crider, Bill, 1941–

Compound Murder: a Dan Rhodes mystery / Bill Crider.—First Edition.

p. cm

(Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries; 18)

ISBN 978-0-312-64165-8 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-02046-8 (e-book)

1.  Rhodes, Dan (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   2.  Sheriffs—Fiction.   3.  Texas—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3553.R497S45 2013

813
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.54—dc23

2013018425

e-ISBN 9781250020468

First Edition: August 2013