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Richard S. Prather

9 September 1921 - 14 February 2007

Richard Prather was born in Santa Ana, California. In 1940-41 he spent a year at Riverside Junior College (now Riverside Community College). He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, from 1942 through the end of the war in 1945. In 1945 he married Tina Hager and took a job as a civilian clerk at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He left that that job to become a full-time writer in 1949. The first Shell Scott mystery, "Case of the Vanishing Beauty" was published in 1950. Prather had a disagreement with his publisher Pocket Books and sued them in 1975. He gave up writing for several years and grew avocados. In 1986 he returned with The Amber Effect. His final book, Shellshock (1987) was published by Tor Books.

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  • Cover of: Strip for Murder

    First published in 1955 8 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1959 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Amber Effect

    First published in 1986 4 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition ambereffectshell0000prat
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    First published in 1956 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1952 2 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1964 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1987 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1966 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1953 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1957 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1952 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1951 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Peddler (Hard Case Crime)

    First published in 2006 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Shell Scott's murder mix

    First published in 1970 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Sure Thing

    First published in 1975 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1964 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1963 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1950 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters

    First published in 1961 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Fiction, Mystery, Scott, shell (fictitious character), fiction, Murder, Private investigators, American Detective and mystery stories, Beauty contestants, California, fiction, Crimes against, Detective and mystery stories, American, Investigation, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Organized crime, Pimps, Prostitution, Pulp literature, collectionID:Sleazy_pulp
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California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)

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  • David Knight
  • Douglas Ring

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April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
May 6, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Added pen names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import