Richard Prather’s Shell Scott Series

  1. Case of the Vanishing Beauty (1950)
  2. Bodies in Bedlam (1951)
  3. Everybody Had a Gun (1951)
  4. Find This Woman (1951)
  5. Dagger of Flesh (1952)
  6. Darling, It’s Death (1952)
  7. Way of a Wanton (1952)
  8. Always Leave ’em Dying (1953)
  9. Ride a High Horse a.k.a. Too Many Crooks (1953)
  10. Pattern for Panic (1954)
  11. Strip for Murder (1956)
  12. The Wailing Frail (1956)
  13. The Deadly Darling (1957)
  14. Have Gat – Will Travel (short stories) (1957)
  15. Three’s a Shroud (novelettes) (1957)
  16. The Scrambled Yeggs (originally published in 1952 as Pattern for Murder under pseudonym “David Knight”) (1958)
  17. Slab Happy (1958)
  18. Take a Murder, Darling (1958)
  19. Over Her Dear Body (1959)
  20. Double in Trouble (with Stephen Marlowe’s Chester Drum) (1959)
  21. Dance with the Dead (1960)
  22. Dig That Crazy Grave (1961)
  23. Shell Scott’s Seven Slaughters (short stories) (1961)
  24. Kill the Clown (1962)
  25. Dead Heat (1963)
  26. The Cockeyed Corpse (1964)
  27. Joker in the Deck (1964)
  28. The Trojan Hearse (1964)
  29. Dead Man’s Walk (1965)
  30. Kill Him Twice (1965)
  31. The Meandering Corpse (1965)
  32. The Kubla Khan Caper (1966)
  33. Gat Heat (1967)
  34. The Cheim Manuscript (1969)
  35. Kill Me Tomorrow (1969)
  36. The Shell Scott Sampler (short stories) (1969)
  37. Dead-Bang (1971)
  38. The Sweet Ride (1972)
  39. The Sure Thing (1975)
  40. The Amber Effect (1986)
  41. Shellshock (1987)
  42. The Death Gods (2011)