THE NIGHTTIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

Crider (Murder Is an Art, 1999, etc.), the veteran creator of Texas series detectives Dan Rhodes, Carl Burns, and Truman Smith, has collected 11 stories from the past decade (most from the past 5 years) that take him from the Hollywood studio era (“Cap’n Bob and Gus”) to the gaming palaces of Europe (“How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo”). And Rhodes (“Gored”), Burns (“The Santa Claus Caper”), and Smith (“Poo-Poo”) all make appearances, lest you forget about the greatest state of all.