Shell Scott Series

42 primary works • 48 total works

Shell Scott, an ex-Marine private investigator, in Los Angeles, California, 6'2" 205 pounds, white hair, likes luscious ladies. Series in order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_...

Book 1

Case of the Vanishing Beauty

by Richard S. Prather

3.57 · 194 Ratings · 34 Reviews · published 1950 · 29 editions

One Beauty vanished from sight. Another dead in a …

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Book 2

Bodies in Bedlam

by Richard S. Prather

3.77 · 127 Ratings · 19 Reviews · published 1951 · 30 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 3

Everybody Had a Gun

by Richard S. Prather

3.63 · 121 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1951 · 35 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 4

Find This Woman

by Richard S. Prather

3.69 · 75 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1951 · 27 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 5

Dagger of Flesh

by Richard S. Prather

3.66 · 53 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1952 · 22 editions

UNDER THE EVIL POWER OF A HYPNOTIC SPELL!

Can a man…

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Book 6

Darling It's Death

by Richard S. Prather

3.45 · 71 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1952 · 26 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 7

Way of a Wanton

by Richard S. Prather

3.77 · 70 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1957 · 21 editions

When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his offic…

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Book 8

The Scrambled Yeggs

by Richard S. Prather

3.79 · 48 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1952 · 20 editions

Pattern of Murder as David Knight 1952, republishe…

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Book 9

Always Leave 'Em Dying

by Richard S. Prather

3.30 · 109 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1954 · 21 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 10

Pattern for Panic

by Richard S. Prather

3.39 · 44 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1954 · 26 editions

LA PI Shell Scott is summoned to Mexico by his old…

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Book 11

Too Many Crooks

by Richard S. Prather

3.72 · 75 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1956 · 30 editions

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocke…

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Book 12

Strip for Murder

by Richard S. Prather

3.67 · 124 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 1956 · 29 editions

Suspiciously dangerous accidents were happening, a…

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Book 13

The Wailing Frail

by Richard S. Prather

3.70 · 46 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1956 · 33 editions

Figuring it out. Man, I've practically made a care…

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Book 15

Have Gat--Will Travel

by Richard S. Prather

3.76 · 49 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1957 · 14 editions

Shell Scott'll slay you?with leers, tears and pist…

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Book 16

Three's a Shroud

by Richard S. Prather

3.76 · 68 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1957 · 13 editions

Three tales of murder and mystery from everyone's …

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Book 17

Slab Happy

by Richard S. Prather

3.79 · 62 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1958 · 23 editions

I wasn't too happy to be looking down the barrel o…

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Book 18

Take a Murder, Darling

by Richard S. Prather

3.71 · 78 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1957 · 24 editions

Of course my line of work has its perks — and it s…

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Book 19

Over Her Dear Body

by Richard S. Prather

3.86 · 49 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1959 · 19 editions

Dancing the fox trot with a client could be consid…

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Book 20

Double in Trouble

by Richard S. Prather

3.97 · 35 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1959 · 18 editions

I'm Shell Scott, the Private Eye. Well at least I …

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Book 21

Dance With the Dead

by Richard S. Prather

3.76 · 34 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1960 · 17 editions

This case couldn't have been more up Shell Scott's…

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Book 22

Dig That Crazy Grave

by Richard S. Prather

3.61 · 56 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1961 · 22 editions

Death is just around the coroner when you're Shell…

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Book 23

Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters

by Richard S. Prather

3.80 · 46 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1961 · 13 editions

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Fawcett Gold Med…

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Book 24

Kill the Clown

by Richard S. Prather

3.79 · 77 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1962 · 16 editions

When danger rolls into town I have one eye open — …

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Book 25

Dead Heat

by Richard S. Prather

3.83 · 46 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1963 · 17 editions

This time around Shell Scott gives up chasing down…

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Book 26

The Cockeyed Corpse

by Richard S. Prather

3.71 · 42 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1961 · 13 editions

Vintage paperback

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Book 27

Joker in the Deck

by Richard S. Prather

3.66 · 44 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1964 · 13 editions

Shell Scott has been dealt a really lousy hand and…

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Book 28

The Trojan Hearse

by Richard S. Prather

3.29 · 41 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1964 · 31 editions

With a national election going on, Shell Scott's t…

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Book 29

Dead Man's Walk

by Richard S. Prather

3.66 · 64 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1965 · 24 editions

The island couldn't be more charming with its stre…

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Book 30

Kill Him Twice

by Richard S. Prather

3.71 · 38 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1965 · 24 editions

It was a bright and shiny Beverly Hills afternoon …

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Book 31

The Meandering Corpse

by Richard S. Prather

3.83 · 47 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1965 · 19 editions

I could see the beach robe Zazu had been wearing, …

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Book 32

Kubla Khan Caper

by Richard S. Prather

3.76 · 66 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1966 · 21 editions

Shell Scott, a private investagator, is hired to f…

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Book 33

Gat Heat

by Richard S. Prather

3.69 · 36 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1967 · 9 editions

A pagan orgy ends in murder.

When a wealthy man nam…

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Book 34

The Cheim Manuscript

by Richard S. Prather

3.79 · 38 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1969 · 16 editions

Wilfred Jefferson Jellicoe is nowhere to be found.…

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Book 35

Kill Me Tomorrow

by Richard S. Prather

3.85 · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1969 · 4 editions

Her name was Lucrezia Brizante.

Shell Scott had see…

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Book 36

The Shell Scott Sampler

by Richard S. Prather

4.33 · 33 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1969 · 12 editions

Shell Scott finds himself pressed up against seduc…

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Book 37

Dead-Bang

by Richard S. Prather

3.47 · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1971 · 7 editions

Somebody had nabbed her father. And since she was …

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Book 38

The Sweet Ride

by Richard S. Prather

3.59 · 27 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1972 · 10 editions

The mayor's daughter skinny-dipped...in front of s…

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Book 39

The Sure Thing

by Richard S. Prather

3.47 · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1975 · 10 editions

A missing person who threatened to murder gets She…

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Book 40

The Amber Effect

by Richard S. Prather

3.62 · 39 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1986 · 10 editions

Just when surefire shamus Shell Scott was thinking…

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Book 41

Shellshock

by Richard S. Prather

3.84 · 43 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1987 · 10 editions

When P.I. Shell Scott locates gangster Claude Roma…

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Book 42

The Death Gods

by Richard S. Prather

4.12 · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions

The last novel by the late author finally seeing p…

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Shell Scott's Murder Mix

by Richard S. Prather

3.50 · 6 Ratings · published 1970 · 2 editions

Contents:
• Dead Heat
• The Cheim Manuscript
• Kill M…

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