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	Always Leave 'em Dying First published 1954 Richard S. Prather This'll kill you . . . it almost killed me, tangling with that cult of evil and its high priest of lechery. A gorgeous lamb had been sacrificed on the altar of sin, and another chosen to follow her. Their leader was a man in black looking like an undertaker who'd embalmed himself by mistake. He offered me a helping hand—with a gun in it. "Shell Scott," he said,"it is my sacred duty to kill you." GM #413 #598 #849 #s1040 #k1448 #d1774 #r2261
	The Amber Effect First published in 1986 Richard S. Prather Not a Fawcett publication She's in danger and she's the perfect client for Scott: 125 pounds of naked beauty standing in his doorway. Aralia Fields is asking for help . . . Someone who tried to kill her is now lying dead on her apartment floor. Heart attack. Aralia, Miss Naked California, is about to compete in the Miss Naked USA contest. If she lives . . . When the cops arrive, Aralia is clothed, somewhat, and Shell is a target. He knows why people want to kill him, but why pick on a poor, helpless, gorgeous woman? It takes some tough detecting and getting hit once or twice, before he can put the pieces in place, the first piece being a photo of Aralia circled in red in a magazine. Then there are her mother and her brother and the man she thought was dead: her father Norman Amber. Amber has invented a new holographic projection device worth millions. It made him a dead man, murdered because control of the Amber Effect would make a lot of people very rich. But first they would have to kill Aralia. TOR
	Bodies in Bedlam First published 1951 Richard S. Prather Constanza Carmocha was unarmed - that is, she didn't have a gun. She didn't need one, either. She had all the weapons that have ruined men from time immemorial - or time immoral. One man had had his throat slit because of her, another was going to die. She was surrounded by a guy who resembled a shaved ape and looked as though he could pick himself up with one hand. But the hand isn't always quicker than the private eye, and as sure as my name's Shell Scott I'll get to the bottom of this affair with the deadly dame. GM #147 #496 #819 #s1242 #k1432 #d1718 #r2211
	Case of the Vanishing Beauty First published 1950 Richard S. Prather SHELL SCOTT . . . the shamus who has Sherlock whirling in his grave . . . the wacky knight-errant of gorgeous gals who leaves a trail of beautiful bodies behind him (not all of 'em dead) . . . The private dick who's every killer's public enemy. This caper began when one beauty vanished from sight and another died in a hail of bullets. Next on the murder list was lovely Lina . . . Lina, who was hotter than a welder's torch . . . and Shell Scott had left his asbestos suit at home. GM #127 #425 #820 #s1249 #k1445 #d1648 #t2376
	The Cheim Manuscript First published 1969 Richard S. Prather Not a Fawcett publication Wilfred Jefferson Jellicoe had disappeared. And his ex-wife, hard-pressed for her alimony payment, hired Shell Scott to find him. A few hours after he took the case, Scott was summoned to the bedside of Gideon Cheim, famed Hollywood producer. Cheim also had an urgent need to know Jellicoe's whereabouts. For he had entrusted him withe a priceless document - an autobiography that was to be published only after his death. Now the Cheim manuscript was missing, along with the man who bound to protect it. A coincidence? Perhaps. But Scott didn't think so. And if what Cheim told him was true, the manuscript could be dynamite in the hands of the wrong person.
	The Cockeyed Corpse First published 1964 Richard S. Prather Don't hold your breath waiting for a movie called "The Wild West" to come to town. Oh, it's wild, all right, but you'll never see it down to the Bijou on Saturday afternoon. It's one of those low-budget deals—no clothes—and it stars four really gorgeous tomatoes (plus a horse that outwits Shell Scott) frolicking in all kinds of interesting ways. But where Shell Scott goes, so goes murder—and this one wasn't meant to be part of the cast . . . GM #k1462 #d1804 #t2302