Shell Scott
Shell Scott was the best-known creation of fiction writer Richard S. Prather. A Southern California private eye, 6-foot-2 ex-marine, he was featured in three dozen novels published over a span of nearly 40 years. The character remained 30 years old throughout.
Shell Scott novels
- Case of the Vanishing Beauty — 1950
- Bodies in Bedlam — 1951
- Everybody Had a Gun — 1951
- Find This Woman — 1951
- Dagger of Flesh — 1952
- Darling, It's Death — 1952
- Pattern for Murder a.k.a. The Scrambled Yeggs (as David Knight) — 1952
- Way of a Wanton — 1952
- Always Leave 'em Dying — 1954
- Pattern for Panic — 1954
- Ride a High Horse a.k.a. Too Many Crooks —1956
- Strip for Murder — 1956
- The Wailing Frail — 1956
- The Deadly Darling — 1957
- Have Gat - Will Travel (short stories) — 1957
- Three's a Shroud (novelettes) — 1957
- Slab Happy — 1958
- Take a Murder — 1958
- Over Her Dear Body, 1959. Shell takes a dive off a yacht to find who killed a real estate agent. He's almost drowned, shot, stabbed, and car-bombed before he finds the trail to a billion dollar freeway scam.
- Double in Trouble (with Stephen Marlowe) — 1959
- Dance with the Dead — 1960
- Dig That Crazy Grave — 1961
- Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters (short stories) — 1961
- Kill the Clown — 1962
- Dead Heat — 1963
- The Cockeyed Corpse — 1964
- Joker in the Deck — 1964
- The Trojan Hearse — 1964
- Dead Man's Walk — 1965
- Kill Him Twice — 1965
- The Meandering Corpse — 1965
- The Kubla Khan Caper — 1966
- Gat Heat — 1967
- The Cheim Manuscript — 1969
- Kill Me Tomorrow — 1969
- The Shell Scott Sampler (short stories) — 1969
- Dead-Bang — 1971
- The Sweet Ride — 1972
- The Sure Thing — 1975
- The Amber Effect — 1986
- Shellshock — 1987
Shell Scott Mystery Magazine
The Shell Scott Mystery Magazine was published under the imprint of the LeMarge Publishing Corporation, the name being somewhat of an anagram of publisher Leo Margulies' name. It lasted 9 issues in 1966.
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