Download or read book The Scrambled Yeggs written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shell Scott. He’s a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world’s public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can’t help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Shell has finally met someone who may be his match. She’s got a killer body and legs that seem to never end, but where is she hiding her pistol in that painted-on dress? It’s tough to keep his mind on the current case, but he’s used to distraction and knows all he needs is a stiff drink and a cold shower. He’s the man for any case and he welcomes the attractive distractions. The Scrambled Yeggs is the 8th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Download or read book The War in Georgia written by Jerrie Oughton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This story makes you believe in the love and laughter and friendship that give you hope in the worst of times” (Booklist). Thirteen-year-old Shanta Cola Morgan is an orphan who lives with her grandmother and her bedridden Uncle Louie. It isn’t exactly a typical family like other kids have. But during the scary summer of 1945, as World War II rages overseas and new neighbors move in across the street, hard times and conflict creep into Shanta’s life as stealthily as kudzu in the Georgia countryside. As Shanta, her grandmother, and Louie dig deep to keep love and humor in their home, Shanta learns how a family sustains each other—and discovers the painful truth that there are worse things than not having parents . . .
Download or read book Sallad Dayes written by Jay Bynum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Seniors (two Rho-I brothers, two independents girls) are a special group at Colony College: Smit Smith is bright handsome, a smartass. Ditto FATs = Francis Alan Thomas, a brother beyond silly blood. Both think Smits dead father renders supra-sensory aid. Smits in love with Mandy McCabe (who may be pregrant)and back at you. Fats and Kelly Smith (no relation to Smit) are tall, red-headed. All four are trying to get enganged and agree to wait for sexnot easy for college kids. (Tip: By the barest margin only Smit is not a virgin.) See them save Benny twice, deliver a baby, find $80,000, save the honest president, resurrect an old rite. Nine yea,
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Download or read book Ellery Queen s Challenge to the Reader written by Ellery Queen and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five detective stories, each relating an episode in the career of a famous fiction detective presented with his name changed for the reader to identify.
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Download or read book Have Gat Will Travel written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes." --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private eye collections ever produced. HAVE GAT--WILL TRAVEL A Shell Scott Mystery Shell Scott'll slay you...with leers, tears and pistol packin' dears. Meet Shell Scott and his entourage of hoodlums, beauties, and dangerous killers. It doesn't take much for this ferocious fireball to pack a punch to all corners of the underworld, but he sure does it. Even if it means sacrificing a pretty little love interest along the way. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...and if he run's out of bullets doing it, Shell will just scare them to death! Honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America! "(Shell Scott is) as amusingly blithe a figure as the field has seen since the Saint." --Anthony Boucher Have Gat—Will Travel is the 15th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Download or read book Kill Me Tomorrow written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the retirement wastelands of Arizona, Shell Scott does a favor for an Italian starlet The bar goes silent when actress Lucrezia Brizante enters. Shell Scott has no idea why this Italian beauty is walking toward him, but he’s about to find out. As it happens, he’s exactly what she’s looking for. There are thousands of private detectives in the United States, but none as batty as Scott, and for what Lucrezia desires, battiness is required. Lucrezia is about to start filming Sins of Caesar’s Orgies, the most outrageous movie of her career, but all she can think about is her father, who has joined the horde of retirees flocking to the deserts of Arizona. Something has soured his golden years, and he can do nothing but mutter to himself about some vague, evil conspiracy. Scott doesn’t really care what’s going on. All he knows is that Lucrezia has eyes as dark as tar pits, and he’s ready to hurl himself inside them. Kill Me Tomorrow is the 35th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Over Her Dear Body written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing the fox trot with a client could be considered unethical--then again, a lot of what my job leads me to do is unethical--but I believe in adding a personal touch to my work. And boy did that ferocious feline of a lady make me crazy about my job. After a while, our rhythmic anatomy lesson turned dirty with an unfriendly gangster pointed his pistol my way. They want me, Shell Scott, to be the headline in the obituaries section, and all I want to do is turn off that dancing music and run to save my life. Over Her Dear Body is the 19th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Epic Peters written by Octavius Roy Cohen and published by Clemson University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cohen’s work is the next-best-thing to having an oral history of a Pullman porter during the hey-day of intercity train travel, at a time when the Pullman Company was one of the largest employers of African-Americans. Epic Peters wonderfully encapsulates virtually everything that was once the life of a Pullman porter.” —Alan Grubb and H. Roger Grant
Download or read book Dig That Crazy Grave written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes." --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private eye collections ever produced. Death is just around the coroner...uh, corner, when you're Shell Scott -- roaming the streets with a nose for danger and a sharp eye for the dames. On a trail leading from the high-class mortuary to the local cemetery, he's about to realize the mob wanted him exactly where he was--as a permanent resident! But there's always another corner, always another solution other than death. At least, when it comes to his. Honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America! "(Shell Scott is) as amusingly blithe a figure as the field has seen since the Saint." --Anthony Boucher Dig That Crazy Grave is the 22nd book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Joker in the Deck written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shell Scott has been dealt a really lousy hand and the stakes are somebody's life--probably his. What will the luck of the draw bring to our hard-boiled hero? Will Shell find the culprit in this full house of crooks and cons or will the queen of hearts call his bluff? A four-of-a-kind is no match for a .44 slug in this all-hours game of guns and girls, guts and grit, life and death. Here the women are crazy and the joker's wild, but so is Shell Scott! Honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America! Joker in the Deck is the 27th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Slab Happy written by Richard S. Prather and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wasn't too happy to be looking down the barrel of the pistol of every gunman in California and when I heard them humming murder music on their lips, the melody was sour and I knew it was being dedicated to only one man--me. That gangdom had it all planned out. They'd even measured me for a grave I was supposed to share with a fiery redhead, Coral. There isn't much I wouldn't share with a spicy beauty, but this time I was willing to pass that up to save my life. Slab Happy is the 17th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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