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ALLEN 'BILL'Y CRIDER

1941 -

Writing as: Bill Crider, William Grant, Jack MacLane

www.billcrider.com


Born and raised in Texas, Bill Crider says on his website that he has always lived in small towns, with the exception of Austin which was rather small when he lived there. He is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. He went on to earn a Masters and then a Ph.D. using as his dissertation the hardboiled detective novel. Forced, he says, by his wife to get a real job, he turned to teaching and continued in that profession for many years eventually becoming the Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at the Alvin Community College. In addition to writing terrific detective novels, of which his Sheriff Dan Rhodes are his best known, Mr. Crider has become an expert in all things detective and criminal in modern fiction. He has written a monthly column for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine for years. I am sad that he only wrote one book that qualifies his inclusion in this collection, that of a Nick Carter adventure, but spy-fi's loss is detective fiction's gain.



Series Books
Bill Crider
 
Nick Carter (1964) The Coyote Connection (1981)
 
M.I.A. Hunter Miami War Zone (1988)
  Desert Death Raid (1989)
  Back To 'Nam (1990)
 
Other Blood Marks (1991)
  A Bond with Death [Professor Sally Good] (2004)
  Booked for a Hanging [Dan Rhodes] (1992)
  Carnival of Death - with others [Dead Man] (2012)
  Cursed to Death [Dan Rhodes] (1988)
  A Dangerous Thing [Carl Burns] (1994)
  Dead On the Island [Truman Smith] (1991)
  Dead Soldiers [Carl Burns] (2004)
  Death By Accident [Dan Rhodes] (1997)
  Death on the Move [Dan Rhodes] (1989)
  Dying Voices [Carl Burns] (1989)
  Evil at the Root [Dan Rhodes] (1990)
  Galveston Gunman (1988)
  Gator Kill [Truman Smith] (1992)
  A Ghost of a Chance [Dan Rhodes] (2000)
  Houston Homicide - with Clyde Wilson [Ted Stephens] (2007)
  A Knife in the Back [Professor Sally Good] (2002)
  A Mammoth Murder [Dan Rhodes] (2006)
  Medicine Show (1990)
  Mike Gonzo and the Almost Invisible Man [Mike Gonzo] (1996)
  Mike Gonzo and the Sewer Monster [Mike Gonzo] (1996)
  Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror [Mike Gonzo] (1997)
  Mississippi Vivian - with Clyde Wilson [Ted Stephens] (2010)
  Murder Among the O.W.L.S. [Dan Rhodes] (2007)
  Murder in Four Parts [Dan Rhodes] (2009)
  Murder in the Air [Dan Rhodes] (2010)
  Murder in the Mist - with Willard Scott [Stanley Waters] (1998)
  Murder is an Art [Professor Sally Good] (1999)
  Murder Most Fowl [Dan Rhodes] (1994)
  Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen [Dan Rhodes] (2012)
  Murder Takes a Break [Truman Smith] (1997)
  Murder Under Blue Skies - with Willard Scott [Stanley Waters] (1997)
  Of All Sad Words [Dan Rhodes] (2008)
  One Dead Dean [Carl Burns] (1988)
  Outrage At Blanco (1998)
  The Prarie Chicken Kill [Truman Smith] (1996)
  Red, White, and Blue Murder [Dan Rhodes] (2003)
  A Romantic Way to Die [Dan Rhodes] (2001)
  Ryan Rides Back (1988)
  Shotgun Saturday Night [Dan Rhodes] (1987)
  The Texas Capitol Murders (1992)
  Texas Vigilante (1999)
  A Time for Hanging (1989)
  Too Late to Die [Dan Rhodes] (1986)
  A Vampire Named Fred (1990)
  We'll Always Have Murder [Humphrey Bogart] (2003)
  When Old Men Die [Truman Smith] (1994)
  The Wild Hog Murders [Dan Rhodes] (2011)
  Winning Can Be Murder [Dan Rhodes] (1996)
 
William Grant
 
Other The Colorado Special [Matt Faraday] (1989)
 
Jack MacLane
 
Other Blood Dreams (1989)
  Goodnight Moom (1989)
  Goodnight Moon (1988)
  Just Before Dark (1990)
  Keepers of the Beast (1988)
  Rest in Peace (1990)