Rhodes is certain the murders are connected, but he is continually bothered by a feeling of missing something both important and obvious.Ī MAMMOTH MURDER is a charming, sly, and entertaining novel.
The death toll rises when an elderly shopkeeper is found dead in her store. The dead man is Bud Turley’s best (and only) friend Larry Colley whose body is discovered alarmingly close to where Bigfoot’s tooth was found. Turley is certain the tooth he found belongs to the latter and he wants Sheriff Rhodes to protect it until an expert-a local community college teacher-can look at it the next day.Ī report of a dead body in Big Woods interrupts Rhodes’s enjoyment of the tooth. A patch of dark timbered country called “Big Woods,” which is home to a mean-spirited pack of wild hogs, rattle snakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and rumors of Bigfoot. Martin’s Press, and it is the 13th mystery to feature Blacklin County Sheriff Dan Rhodes.īud Turley found the tooth in Blacklin County’s version of the Bermuda Triangle. A MAMMOTH MURDER was originally published in 2006 by St.
With that opening, the very essence of both A MAMMOTH MURDER and Bill Crider’s character Sheriff Dan Rhodes is laid bare: humorous, witty and entertaining. "Bud Turley, called Bud Squirrelly by those who thought he had a lot of peculiar ideas, put the gigantic tooth down on Sheriff Dan Rhodes’s desk and said, ‘I want you to take custody of this tooth, Sheriff’" But when the sheriff is faced with the murder of an elderly woman in the small store she ran at the edge of the woods, he knows he has a human killer on his hands. And he wouldn’t be too surprised if somehow feral hogs were involved Rhodes knows what many Texans don’t-it is estimated that at least a million and a half feral hogs roam the state many believe it could be twice that many. However, the next day his body is found in the forest, leaving Larry Colley more certain than ever that a monster is lurking there.ĭan Rhodes is not sure that Bud’s death is the work of an “ordinary” criminal. Most inhabitants of Blacklin County have avoided those woods, but Colley and Bud are at home there, and Turley is ready to crow over his find.
But Turley’s buddy Larry Colley has maintained for years that he’s seen Bigfoot. Turley insists that the tooth is proof that Bigfoot roams the woods-unless it is from a prehistoric animal, which Rhodes thinks is more likely. One hot summer morning, big, tough Bud Turley brings an enormous tooth into the Blacklin County police station and asks Sheriff Dan Rhodes to keep it for him until the paleontologist from the community college comes up to examine it.
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