More than 40,000,000 copies sold in the U.S., plus millions more in foreign editions. Listed by the first U.S. printing.

Printable Richard S. Prather Book Bibliography

The Case of the Vanishing Beauty -1950 Bodies in Bedlam - 1951 Everybody Had a Gun - 1951 Find This Woman - 1951 Way of a Wanton - 1952 Pattern for Murder/The Scrambled Yeggs -1952, 58 Lie Down, Killer - 1952 Dagger of Flesh - 1952, 56 Darling, It's Death - 1952 The Peddler - 1952 Ride a High Horse/Too Many Crooks - 1953, 56 Always Leave 'em Dying - 1954 Pattern for Panic - 1954, 61 Strip for Murder - 1955 Dragnet: Case #561 - 1956 The Wailing Frail - 1956 Three's a Shroud - 1957 Have Gat - Will Travel - 1957 Slab Happy - 1958 Take a Murder, Darling - 1958 Over Her Dear Body - 1959 Double in Trouble - 1959 Dance with the Dead - 1960

The Comfortable Coffin (Editor)  - 1960 Dig That Crazy Grave - 1961 Shell Scott's Seven Slaughters - 1961 Kill the Clown - 1962 Dead Heat - 1963 Joker in the Deck - 1964 The Cockeyed Corpse -1964 The Trojan Hearse - 1964 Kill Him Twice - 1965 Dead Man's Walk - 1965 The Meandering Corpse - 1965 The Kubla Khan Caper - 1966 Gat Heat - 1967 The Cheim Manuscript - 1969 The Shell Scott Sampler - 1969 Kill Me Tomorrow - 1969 Shell Scott's Murder Mix - 1970 Dead-Bang - 1971 The Sweet Ride - 1972 The Sure Thing - 1975 The Amber Effect - 1986 Shellshock - 1987