The Death Gods (A Shell Scott Mystery)

✍ Scribed by Richard S. Prather

• Book ID: 109293099
• Publisher: Richard S. Prather
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Series: Shell Scott 42
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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...