Murder in the Air Author:Bill Crider 17th in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries, he has his hands full with complaints about Lester Hamilton's foul-smelling chicken farm. With the whole of Blacklin County, Texas, in an uproar over the polluted stench of Hamilton's industrialized farm, no one seems upset when Hamilton is found floating face down in a local fishing hole. Although some ... more »believe the drowning was an accident, Rhodes isn't so sure. There's definitely a foul stink in the air, but something tells him it isn't the chickens« less