Today we are on the hump of Murder In March Madness with day number sixteen. up. All through the month of
March I will highlight a different mystery with the word "Murder" or a
variant in the title.Today's title is Murder Most Fowl by Bill Crider
Murder Most Fowl (1984)
Written by Bill Crider (1941- )
Blacklin County Texas,
Sheriff Dan Rhodes investigates a crime wave of emu-rustling and a
murder that may be related to the theft of the valuable birds.
Down home Texas policeman Dan Rhodes finds a corpse in a
bullet-riddled portable toilet floating down river. The congregation
assembled on the riverbank for a baptism is disturbed; the three young
drunks discovered shooting at the toilet claim not to have known anyone
was inside. The victim, a former hardware-store owner who had recently
chained himself to the local Wal-Mart to protest the discount store's
competitive edge, has an illegal cockfighting tool in his pocket. Then
the dead man's widow is killed. The inhabitants of town, including
Dan's shiftless deputies who are most interested in watching TV soaps
and Oprah, have lots of generally bad advice for their sheriff, who has
two murders to solve, two emus to find and a secret cockfighting ring to
break up-all on a diet of health food prescribed by his concerned lady
friend.
Printing History
St Martins Press
ISBN 312 11387
September 1994
Scott - I like Crider's series, and this title is inspired! Thanks for highlighting this one.
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