Shellshock - Hardcover

Prather, Richard S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312930348 ISBN 13: 9780312930349

Publisher: Tor Books, 1987

Synopsis

When P.I. Shell Scott locates gangster Claude Romanelle's missing daughter Michelle, Scott finds Romanelle shot dead and himself the next target

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Shell Scott, like Mike Hammer, has been around a long time, though these days Shell has more of Jim Rockford about himor perhaps it's the other way around. Some 40 million copies of Prather's hard-boiled though humorous private eye have been sold since he first appeared in 1950, but Prather's newest novel zips along and still seems as fresh and well plotted as the first. Shell is on the money when it comes to bulldozing his way through thugs, though for a womanizer he displays a refreshing uncertainty with lithesome beauties. This time, Shell is hired by ex-gangster Claude Romanelle to find his "little girl." The case turns into a nightmare that pits him against Romanelle's former partners in crime. It doesn't take the L.A. investigator long to find "little Spree," now a buxom, beautiful 26-year-old, nor does it take him long to be both seduced by another woman or to discover he is being led by the nose by Romanelle. Then Romanelle turns up missing, and people start trying to kill Shell and kidnap Spree. Shell Scott and PI fans will not be disappointed.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0312930348
• ISBN 13: 9780312930349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346