Wednesday, January 23, 2008
 
Book Report: Kill Him Twice by Richard S. Prather (1965, 1968)
I have read at least one other Shell Scott novel, since I own it, and might have read more than that courtesy of my local library when I was in high school. So although I'm not a particular fan of Prather, I've enjoyed his participation in a genre I enjoy.

The book is less earnest in its pulp and doesn't really swerve into the campy, but the main character doesn't take himself or his adventures too seriously. In this book, Shell Scott investigates the murder of a vice president of a Hollywood dish magazine and discovers, as the bodies of mobsters and starlets begin to fall all around him, a blackmail scheme behind it. He does some shooting, some fighting, some near-loving of said starlets, and uses a ruse in the ending to unravel the plot.

A quick read, good enough, and I'll take more of these as they present themselves in the garage sales or book fair circuit. If you're so inclined, there's a link to this book below and you can put some dough in the coffers of Noggle, Inc. No, really, I mean dough; Amazon doesn't pay pitiful referrers like me in real money.

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