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    Darling, It's Death

    By Richard S. Prather

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    Shell Scott. He’s a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world’s public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can’t help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Man, oh, man, is she a looker. That’s Shell’s job, to just look at her--day and, of course, night. But it gets kind of hard to check out those legs that just don’t stop with a 350-pound thug in the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah the big boss wants Shell out of town, preferably in a bodybag, but Shell’s got a job to do and nothing is going to come between him and that vision of absolute beauty.

    Honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America!
     
    Darling, It’s Death is the 6th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781480499027
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    Richard S. Prather

    Richard S. Prather (1921–2007) was the author of the world-famous Shell Scott detective series, which has over forty million copies in print in the United States and many millions more in foreign-language editions abroad. There are forty-one volumes in the series, including four collections of short stories and novelettes. In 1986, Prather was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. He and his wife, Tina, lived in Sedona, Arizona.

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    • 2/5
      This is one of the tamer Shell Scott novels. Although set in Aculpoco, Mexico, it doesn't have the flair of description some of his novels have, and the characters are imminently forgettable, except for . . .well . . . that proves my point.