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Prather, Richard S

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Richard S PratherRichard Scott Prather (1921-2007) was born in Santa Ana California and educated at Riverside Junior College. He served in the US Merchant Marine during WW2 and married Tina Hager in 1945. Since 1949 he has been a writer and avocado farmer. His website can be found here. His series character is the comic detective Shell Scott. Shell Scott books are available electronically from many websites including Fictionwise. Prather also wrote as David Knight and Douglas Ring.

 

Bibliography

 

Case of the Vanishing Beauty (1950)

Bodies in Bedlam (1951)

Everybody Had a Gun (1951)

Find This Woman (1951)

Way of a Wanton (1952)

Pattern for Murder aka The Scrambled Yeggs (1952)

Lie Down, Killer (1952)

Dagger of Flesh (1952)

Darling, It's Death (1952)

The Peddler (1952)

Ride a High Horse aka Too Many Crooks (1953)

Always Leave 'em Dying (1954)

Pattern for Panic (1954)

Strip for Murder (1955)

The Wailing Frail (1956)

Three's a Shroud (1957)

Have Gat Will Travel (1957)

Slab Happy (1958)

Take a Murder, Darling (1958)

Over Her Dear Body (1959)

Double in Trouble (1959) -- with Stephen Marlowe

Dance with the Dead (1960)

Dig That Crazy Grave (1961)

Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters (1961)

Kill the Clown (1962)

Dead Heat (1963)

Joker in the Deck (1964)

The Cockeyed Corpse (1964)

The Trojan Hearse (1964)

Kill Him Twice (1965)

Dead Man's Walk (1965)

The Meandering Corpse (1965)

The Kubla Khan Caper (1966)

Gat Heat (1967)

The Cheim Manuscript (1969)

The Shell Scott Sampler (1969)

Kill Me Tomorrow (1969)

Shell Scott's Murder Mix (1970)

Dead-Bang (1971)

The Sweet Ride (1972)

The Sure Thing (1975)

The Amber Effect (1986)

Shellshock (1987)

The Death Gods (2011)

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