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aka: The Scrambled Yeggs (Fawcett Gold Medal #770, 1958) as R. S. Prather
[*In Fawcett version Prather changed the Cliff Morgan character back to Shell Scott. "Specially revised," but in fact, it was the novel in its original version, with Shell Scott restored to the place.] Shell Scott-14

[R. S. Prather: 'He also became Sheldon "Shell" Scott, because in the beginning that wasn’t his name. When I started plotting "Maddern Caper" I called my lead character—are you ready for this?—Brad Crane.' (interview with Linda Pendleton)]

reissued: Dagger Of Flesh (Fawcett Gold Medal #s1157, 1956) [*with Shell Scott as main character] Shell Scott-11

[--In Memory
  For Richard S. Prather (1921-2007), and dedicated to Richard's first cousin, Mildred Comstock, and to her daughter, Patricia Willis. I'm sure all three are joyously dancing and partying together in heaven.
 -Linda Pendleton
--Product Description:
  In “The Death Gods,” happy-go-lucky, Los Angeles Private Eye, Shell Scott, bulldozes his way thru thugs, often with light-hearted humor, and with a beauty or two along the way, in this final novel of the long-running Shell Scott Series by Richard S. Prather, published for the first time.
  Shell Scott is hired to locate a lost dog belonging to a local physician, Henry Hernandez, M.D. But Scott soon discovers the needs of Dr. Hernandez go far beyond his missing dog. There has been an attempt on the doctor’s life and Dr. Hernandez believes it is due to his knowing too much about a deadly virus that appears to be taking hold in the country. Dr. Hernandez sets out to not only prove to Shell Scott, but to the world, that the IFAI virus and the vaccine being developed by a well-known local medical researcher and his wealthy business partner, is a complete fraud. Shell Scott finds himself in deep and getting deeper by the hour in this battle of good against evil, life against death, and medical “quackery” against allopathic medicine. Can Scott convince a beautiful female medical author that the medical researcher she admires may not be all he claims to be? And what about Scott’s client, Dr. Henry Hernandez: is he a nut-case, a quack, as some claim? Shell Scott finds he is in the battle of his life and chances are he may not come out alive.
--From Linda Pendleton's Blog:
  In 2006, I asked Richard if I could do an interview with him. We did it by mail, and due to his declining health, it did take some time. I published the long interview in December 2006. During that time, Richard asked me to take his unpublished 1,000 page manuscript, The Death Gods, at his death and to do my best to market it. Following his death in February, 2007, I received the manuscript, all 1,000 pages, only a few of those pages typed, the balance, handwritten with lots of his blue felt pen notes squeezed between lines.
  The task seemed overwhelming and due to the length, agents and publishers did not find it an attractive opportunity. But I did not give up on publishing Richard’s work, as I felt strongly that his fans and new readers should have the opportunity to read the last Shell Scott mystery.
  So sixty-one, yes, Sixty-One years after Richard S. Prather’s tough, yet happy-go-lucky, Southern California detective, Shell Scott hit the pages of a book, the last Shell Scott mystery is now in print and in ebook formats. I am pleased with his story, with the book and with the cover I designed with Judy Bullard. I hope readers will enjoy Richard S. Prather’s last creation.
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[--“This book has been designed...with the hope that while reading it you will smile, and chuckle, and-more than once-laugh out loud.” (the intro, by Prather in "The Comfortable Coffin").
--'one of the very best comic-crime anthologies ever published'. (Jack Adrian from "The Independent")]