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    Take a Murder, Darling
    Take a Murder, Darling
    Take a Murder, Darling
    Audiobook5 hours

    Take a Murder, Darling

    Written by Richard S. Prather

    Narrated by Maynard Villers

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    The scarlet bikini which had covered a minimum of the eyepopping curves on the dead woman, lay at her feet, and my eyes focussed on her as glassily as did the dead man’s next to her. He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I’d ever heard of. Me? I’m Shell Scott, private detective and I’m wondering why anybody in his right mind would commit such a complicated murder, but I’m certainly going to find out...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateMay 15, 2012
    ISBN9781614531661
    Take a Murder, Darling
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    Richard S. Prather

    Richard S. Prather (1921–2007) was the author of the world-famous Shell Scott detective series, which has over forty million copies in print in the United States and many millions more in foreign-language editions abroad. There are forty-one volumes in the series, including four collections of short stories and novelettes. In 1986, Prather was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. He and his wife, Tina, lived in Sedona, Arizona.

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    • 3/5
      C'mon now. Shell Scott, the main character is a PI. He's friends with the Captain of the homocide division, and the other cops love him so much the freely give him all they have on any case he's working on. He shoots at least four people yet never spends a night in jail, it's just a matter of filling out a few reports. Cops hate PI's and you can't just go around shooting whomever you please with no consequences. I know it takes place in the 50's but really, reality check? It was mindless entertainment, like watching an old movie when nothing else is on. Not recommended.
    • 4/5
      Darn it's good to visit old friends! I met detective Shell Scott through Richard Prather in the middle to late 1950s, and I remember getting a woody over Shell's descriptions of the females fair. Today at 64 I smile and enjoy an era's breakthrough language that pales to today's street language.You can tell Prather is having fun 2with his work, especially by his use of some of the most God-awful puns I've had the pleasure to read.An example: "Let nature take its curse.."Oy vay!