Bill Crider


Bill Crider was an American author of crime fiction among other work.

Biography

He received an M.A. at the University of North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote a dissertation on the hardboiled detective novel. He then moved to Alvin, Texas, with his wife, where he was the Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College. He retired in August 2002 to become a full-time writer.
He was the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries, the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Truman Smith P.I. series, and wrote three books in the series under the pseudonym "Jack Buchanan". He was also the writer of several westerns and horror novels.

Personal life and death

Crider had two children, Angela Crider Neary and Allen Crider, with his wife of 49 years Judy.
Crider died at his home in Alvin, Texas, on February 12, 2018 of cancer, at the age of 76.

Mystery novels

Sheriff Dan Rhodes series

Carl Burns series

Truman Smith series

Stanley Waters series

Professor Sally Good series

Stand-alone mystery and suspense novels

House-name spy fiction

Western novels

Horror novels

Stone: M.I.A. Hunter series

Books for young readers

Short story collections