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Shell Scott Series by Richard S. Prather - Reading Order | Book Series List

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Shell Scott Series

by Richard S. Prather

The Shell Scott series by Richard S. Prather consists of 41 books, published between 1950 and 2011. The series begins with The Case of the Vanishing Beauty.

Books in Order (41 books)

1

The 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

Pattern for Murder / The Scrambled Yeggs(1952)

9

Always Leave 'em Dying(1953)

10

Ride a High Horse / Too Many Crooks(1953)

11

Pattern for Panic(1954)

12

Strip for Murder(1956)

13

The Wailing Frail(1956)

14

Have Gat - Will Travel(1957)

15

Three's a Shroud(1957)

16

Slab Happy(1958)

17

Take a Murder, Darling(1958)

18

Over Her Dear Body(1959)

19

Double in Trouble (With: Stephen Marlowe)(1959)

20

Dance with the Dead(1960)

21

Dig That Crazy Grave(1961)

22

Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters(1961)

23

Kill the Clown(1962)

24

Dead Heat(1963)

25

Joker in the Deck(1964)

26

The Cockeyed Corpse(1964)

27

The Trojan Hearse(1964)

28

Dead Man's Walk(1965)

29

Kill Him Twice(1965)

30

The Meandering Corpse(1965)

31

The Kubla Khan Caper(1966)

32

Gat Heat(1967)

33

The Cheim Manuscript(1969)

34

Kill Me Tomorrow(1969)

35

The Shell Scott Sampler(1969)

36

Dead-Bang(1971)

37

The Sweet Ride(1972)

38

The Sure Thing(1975)

39

The Amber Effect(1986)

40

Shellshock(1987)

41

The Death Gods(2011)

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