Order of Bill Crider Books
Bill Crider is an American author of mystery, western and horror novels along with children’s books. He is best known for his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, but has other series including the Truman Smith series. Before becoming a novelist, Crider taught English at Howard Payne University for over a decade. After that, he earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He retired in 2003 in order to dedicate his time to writing fiction.
Bill Crider became a published author in 1984, writing The Coyote Connection under the house name Nick Carter. His first novel of his own was Too Late to Die in 1986, the start of his Dan Rhodes series. Below is a list of Bill Crider’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Sheriff Dan Rhodes Books
Publication Order of Sheriff Dan Rhodes Collections
(with Judy Crider)
| The Blacklin County Files | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Carl Burns Books
| One Dead Dean | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dying Voices | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Dangerous Thing | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead Soldiers | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Truman Smith Private Eye Books
| Dead on the Island | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gator Kill | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| When Old Men Die | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Prairie Chicken Kill | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder Takes a Break | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Mike Gonzo Books
| Mike Gonzo and the Almost Invisible Man | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mike Gonzo and the Sewer Monster | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mike Gonzo and the UFO Terror | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Stanley Waters Books
(with Willard Scott)
| Murder Under Blue Skies | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder in the Mist | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Professor Sally Good Books
| Murder is an Art | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Knife In The Back | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Bond with Death | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Humphrey Bogart Books
| We'll Always Have Murder | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ted Stephens Books
| Houston Homicide | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mississippi Vivian | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Ellie Taine Books
| Outrage at Blanco | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Texas Vigilante | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Ryan Rides Back | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Keepers of the Beast | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Galveston Gunman | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Goodnight Moom | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood Dreams | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Time for Hanging | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rest in Peace | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Medicine Show | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Vampire Named Fred | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Just Before Dark | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blood Marks | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Texas Capitol Murders | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl Who Wanted to Be Sherlock Holmes | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| My Heart Cries For You | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love, and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Hop | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Chocolate Moose | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death's Brother | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What a Croc! | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Werewolf Named Wayne | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cranked | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Nighttime is the Right Time | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Raining Willie & Cranked | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I am a Roving Gambler | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eight Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Adventures of Wishbone Books
Publication Order of The Dead Man Books
Publication Order of MX New Sherlock Holmes Stories Books
| Part I: 1881 to 1889 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part II: 1890 to 1895 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part III: 1896 to 1929 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part IV: 2016 Annual | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part V | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part VI | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part VII | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part VIII: Eliminate The Impossible: 1892-1905 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part IX: 2018 Annual | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part X: 2018 Annual | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XI: Some Untold Cases | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XII: Some Untold Cases | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XIII: 2019 Annual 1881-1890 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XV: 2019 Annual | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XIV: 2019 Annual | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XVII: Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XVIII: Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth 1899-1925 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XVI: Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XX: 2020 Annual | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXI: 2020 Annual | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XIX: 2020 Annual | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Some More Untold Cases Part XXII: 1877-1887 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXIII: 1888-1894 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXIV: 1895-1903 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXV: 2021 Annual 1881-1888 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXVI | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXVII: 2021 Annual 1898-1928 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXX: More Christmas Adventures 1897-1928 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXIX: More Christmas Adventures 1889-1896 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXVIII: More Christmas Adventures 1869-1888 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXVIII: More Christmas Adventures 1869-1888 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| XXXI: 2022 Annual 1875-1887 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXII: 2022 Annual 1888-1895 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XIII: 2022 Annual | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXI: 2022 Annual | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXIII: 2022 Annual 1896-1919 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXIV: However Improbable | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXV: However Improbable | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXVI: However Improbable | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXVII: 2023 Annual | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXVIII: 2023 Annual | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXVIII | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XXXIX | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLII: Further Untold Cases 1894-1922 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLI: Further Untold Cases - 1887-1892 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLIII: 2024 Annual 1874-1888 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLIV: 2024 Annual 1889-1897 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLV: 2024 Annual 1898-1917 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLVI: Occupants of the Canonical Realm 1861-1889 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Part XLVII: Occupants of the Canonical Realm 1890-1898 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: The Coyote Connection was written alongside Jack Davis under the house name Nick Carter. The Blackline County Files is co-authored with Judy Crier. The Stanley Waters series is written with Willard Scott. The Carnival of Death is co-authored with Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin. M.I.A. Hunter is co-authored with Stephen Mertz. Houston Homicide was co-authored with Clyde Wilson. The novels Keepers of the Beast, Goodnight Moom, Blood Dreams, Rest in Peace and Just Before Dark were written using the pen name of Jack MacLane.
Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe also contains contributions from Terence Faherty, Wendi Lee and Aileen Schumacher. The Spider Chronicles also contains contributions by Mort Castle, Shannon Denton, Chuck Dixon, Steve Englehart, Ron Fortier, Joe Gentile, Rich Harvey, John Helfers and John Jakes. Die, Lover, Die! is co-authored by Max Allan Collins, Lee Goldberg, Joel Goldman, Ed Gorman, Vicki Hendricks, Naomi Hirahara, Paul Levine, Harry Shannon and Dave Zeltserman.
Mississippi Vivian was co-authored by Clyde Wilson.
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