![]() ![]() RICHARD S. PRATHER COLLECTION SERIESDouble in Trouble (with Stephen Marlowe, co-starring Marlowe's series character Chester Drum) - 1959.The Scrambled Yeggs (published in 1952 as Pattern for Murder under pseudonym "David Knight") - 1958.Have Gat - Will Travel (short stories) - 1957.Twice served on the Board of Directors of the Mystery Writers of America īibliography Shell Scott novels.Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award (1986).Prather's wife, Tina Hager, died in April 2004 after 58 years of marriage. Prather Manuscript Collection at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyoming. In 1987, Prather's penultimate book, Shellshock, was published in hardcover by Tor Books. In 1986, he returned with The Amber Effect. He gave up writing for several years and grew avocados. Prather had a disagreement with his publisher, Pocket Books, and sued them in 1975. His final novel, The Death Gods, was published October 2011, in print and ebook formats by Pendleton Artists, with permission of the Richard S. ![]() It would be the start of a long series that numbered more than three dozen titles featuring the Shell Scott character.Īt Prather's death in 2007, he had completed but not published his last Shell Scott Mystery. The first Shell Scott mystery, Case of the Vanishing Beauty, was published in 1950. He left that job to become a full-time writer in 1949. That year he married Tina Hager and began working as a civilian chief clerk of surplus property at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, from 1942 through the end of the war, in 1945. Prather was born in Santa Ana, California and spent a year at Riverside Junior College (now Riverside Community College). ![]()
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