Even I—and I am not a doctor, and thus can’t know
for sure about such things—understood that civilization
must be face-to-face with its greatest peril ever,
nothing less than the possible extinction of all life
upon the planet except maybe cockroaches.”
~Sheldon “Shell” Scott, Private Investigator, The Death Gods
for sure about such things—understood that civilization
must be face-to-face with its greatest peril ever,
nothing less than the possible extinction of all life
upon the planet except maybe cockroaches.”
~Sheldon “Shell” Scott, Private Investigator, The Death Gods
Happy-go-lucky,
Los Angeles Private Eye, Shell Scott, bulldozes his way thru thugs, often with
light-hearted humor, and with a beauty or two along the way, in this final
novel of the long-running Shell Scott Series by Richard S. Prather.
Shell
Scott, is hired to locate a lost dog belonging to a local physician, Henry
Hernandez, M.D. But Scott soon discovers
the needs of Dr. Hernandez go far beyond his missing dog. There has been an attempt on the doctor’s
life and Dr. Hernandez believes it is due to his knowing too much about a
deadly virus that appears to be taking hold in the country. Dr. Hernandez is convinced the virus is a
scam, contrived by a well-known medical researcher and his wealthy business
partner.
Can
Scott convince a beautiful female medical author that the medical researcher
she admires may not be all he claims to be?
And what about Scott’s client, Dr. Henry Hernandez: is he a nut-case, a quack, as some
claim? Shell Scott finds he is in the
battle of his life and chances are he may not come out alive.
Scott
finds himself in deep and getting deeper by the hour in this battle of good
against evil, medical “quackery” against allopathic medicine, and life against
death.
More
than 40 million copies of Richard S. Prather's hard-boiled Shell Scott
mysteries have been sold in the U.S.,
with millions more world-wide since Shell Scott first appeared in 1950. Richard
S. Prather (1921-2007) received the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime
Achievement Award in 1986. The series is available in ebooks.
The
Death Gods, Published by Pendleton Artists for the Richard S. Prather Estate.
Cover
Design by Judy Bullard.
~Linda
Pendleton
www.lindapendleton
I read it and it's great! Look for my review on Amazon.Com
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