Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Richard Prather

From: Bob Toomey ( btoomey@javanet.com)
Date: 20 Mar 2000

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Bill Crider wrote:
>
> I wish I could
> remember the title of the Prather book that finds Shell Scott in the nudist
> colony. A classic.

It's STRIP FOR MURDER (1955), a fun book. It marks Prather's transition from writer of fairly standard hardboiled p.i. stories to the screwball stuff that made him one of the most enjoyable authors of the fifties.

BobT

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