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I've bought 10 of the Richard S. Prather Shell Scott capers/mysteries from the 36 now available at Fictionwise. These were published primarily in the 50s, 60, and 70s.
I bought 4 before the sale went on.
Then I bought 5 during the 50% off sale.
And a few days ago, one was offered to me for 60% off.
Only 26 more to go.
I think there were 40 or 41 that were published. (I'm too lazy at this moment to look.)
Shell Scott is the detective who, for various reasons, always finds himself surrounded by beautiful babes and fearless bullets. He loves the babes - the tomatoes - but hates the beefy guys who are always firing their roscoes at him.
Interested in Shell Scott, or think you might be? Give him a try. One caper had him at a nudist colony (well, of course!) He's always eternally 30 years old and is always in trouble - with the dames and with the crooks.
As you may have guessed from my writing, Shell Scott is anything BUT politically correct. The tomatoes love him, and he loves them. He gives them a squeeze and they will invariably squeeze back. But he's also chivalrous and doesn't bed a woman just to have sex with her.
So, if you're tired of broken political lies told by an unending roll-call of rascals, or tired of hearing about Joe the Plumber, or trying to scrape by because you'll have to spread your "wealth" [read hard-earned bucks] around....well, then buddy (or "budette"), come with me when crooked politicians were punished because they were crooked and bullets always found the targets of the bad guys because they were bad, and beautiful women always needed rescuing because it was a different time and a different world, a time of innocence combined with ignorance; it was a time when, if you were bad, you were indeed punished.
Don
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