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Richard S. Prather

Richard Prather was born in Santa Ana, California. In 1940-41 he spent a year at Riverside Junior College (now Riverside Community College). He served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, from 1942 through the end of the war in 1945. In 1945 he married Tina Hager and took a job as a civilian clerk at March Air Force Base in Riverside, California. He left that that job to become a full-time writer in 1949. The first Shell Scott mystery, "Case of the Vanishing Beauty" was published in 1950. Prather had a disagreement with his publisher Pocket Books and sued them in 1975. He gave up writing for several years and grew avocados. In 1986 he returned with The Amber Effect. His final book, Shellshock (1987) was published by Tor Books.

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American writer

Born 9 September 1921
Died 14 February 2007

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    First published in 1956 2 editions
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    First published in 1952 2 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1955 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1962 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1953 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1957 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1959 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1952 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The Bawdy Beautiful and Other Exploits/Includes Book Notes (Mystery Collection)

    First published in 1986 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Everybody Had a Gun

    First published in 1951 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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American writer

Born 9 September 1921
Died 14 February 2007
Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mystery, Scott, shell (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Thriller, Fiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologies, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Private investigators, California, fiction, Murder, American Detective and mystery stories, Acapulco (mexico), fiction, American literature, Beauty contestants, Beverly hills (calif.), fiction, Crimes against, Detective and mystery stories, American, Investigation, Motion picture industry, Organized crime
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California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.), Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), Las Vegas (Nev.)

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  • David Knight
  • Douglas Ring
  • Richard Scott Prather
  • Richard S Prather

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June 28, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import