A Time for Hanging

by Bill Crider

Overview

Lizzie Randall, the preacher’s pretty daughter, has been discovered brutally murdered. The young Mexican boy Paco Morales is found close to the scene making him a convenient scapegoat to hang for the heinous crime. When the town drunkard Willie Turner claims that Morales is innocent, Sheriff Ward Vincent is forced to investigate the heinous crime more closely. As his investigation progresses, the dark underbelly of the small western town is exposed, and the guilty seem to outnumber the innocent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590772225
Publisher:	M. Evans & Company
Publication date:	03/21/2014
Series:	An Evans Novel of the West
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bill Crider is the winner of two Anthony Awards and an Edgar Award Finalist. An English teacher for many years—at both collegiate and high school level—he’s published more than seventy-five Western, crime and horror novels. He lives with his wife in Alvin, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

The author's expertise as a writer of mysteries (the Sheriff Rhoades mysteries) adds greatly to this eminently readable Western. It is competently written in an economic style, fast and sure in accomplishing its goal to provide an attention-riveting whodunit. Lizzie Randall, the preacher's daughter, is murdered. The men of the west Texas town are set on lynching Paco Morales, a Mexican teenager who happened to be in the vicinity at the time. No proof, but, after all, he is only a Mexican. Reason and/or conscience work on most of the would-be lynchers, so that, in the end justice is served. The list of suspects grows to include almost everyone in the story, thus providing an agreeable tangle of clues.--Sister Avila, Acad. of Holy Angels, Minneapolis

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