The Death Gods

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

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.

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