under pseudonym "David Knight") — 1958 Slab Happy — 1958 Take a Murder, Darling — 1958 Over Her Dear Body — 1959 Double in Trouble (with Stephen Marlowe, co-starring Marlowe's series character Chester Drum) — 1959 Dance with the Dead — 1960 Dig That Crazy Grave — 1961 Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters (short stories) — 1961 Kill the Clown — 1962 Dead Heat — 1963 The Cockeyed Corpse — 1964 Joker in the Deck — 1964 The Trojan Hearse — 1964 Dead Man's Walk — 1965 Kill Him Twice — 1965 The Meandering Corpse — 1965 The Kubla Khan Caper — 1966 Gat Heat — 1967 The Cheim Manuscript — 1969 Kill Me Tomorrow — 1969 The Shell Scott Sampler (short stories) — 1969 Dead-Bang — 1971 The Sweet Ride — 1972 The Sure Thing — 1975 The Amber Effect — 1986 Shellshock — 1987 The Death Gods - 2011 Other novels Lie Down, Killer — 1952 The Peddler — 1963 (published in 1952 under pseudonym "Douglas Ring") The Peddler - 2006 by Hard Case Crime As David Knight Pattern for Murder — 1952 (published in 1958 as The Scrambled Yeggs under Prather's name) Dragnet: Case No. 561 — 1956 As Douglas Ring The Peddler — 1952 (published in 1963 under Prather's name) As editor The Comfortable Coffin, stories by Ellery Queen, Evan Hunter, Stanley Ellin, Erle Stanley Gardner, and others Notes References Reilly, John M., editor. Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1980): entry Marquis Who’s Who in America (2002 edition): entry The Richard S. Prather / Shell Scott Website Archived - Last: 26 June 2012 - Visit: 26 June 2021 External links Richard S. Prather at the Internet Book List 1921 births 2007 deaths 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American thriller writers American sailors American mystery writers Shamus Award winners Writers from California Riverside City College alumni 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers United States Merchant Mariners of World War II