Richard S. Prather

A very well recieved series by Richard S. Prather are the books, featuring tropes. The most popular books are The Comfortable Coffin, The Sure Thing (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Way of a Wanton, Kill Him Twice (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Joker in the Deck (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Cockeyed Corpse (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Scrambled Yeggs (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Kill Me Tomorrow, Take a Murder, Darling (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Case of the Vanishing Beauty, Dagger of Flesh, Dance with the Dead (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Dead-Bang, Shellshock (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Dead Heat (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Slab Happy (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Three's a Shroud (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Strip for Murder, Dig That Crazy Grave (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Trojan Hearse (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Cheim Manuscript (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Amber Effect (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Shell Scott Sampler, Double in Trouble (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Meandering Corpse (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Over Her Dear Body, Have Gat—Will Travel, Darling, It's Death, Too Many Crooks, The Kubla Khan Caper (The Shell Scott Mysteries), Always Leave ’Em Dying, Gat Heat, Find This Woman, Pattern for Panic, Bodies in Bedlam (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Wailing Frail (The Shell Scott Mysteries), The Sweet Ride (The Shell Scott Mysteries), which was published in 2022.