Richard Prather was interviewed at a Bouchercon some years
ago and told a long, complex story about what happened to his
career. He did very well at Gold Medal, then signed with
Pocket Books. He believed he was being cheated on his
royalties, he took it to court. Here my memory gets hazy, as
it so often does these days, but I believe he eventually won
the suit and collected. But after that he was more or less
blacklisted. Michael Seidman tried to revive his career when
Seidman was at Tor, but what worked in the 1950s didn't work
quite so well in the 1980s. I wish I could remember the title
of the Prather book that finds Shell Scott in the nudist
colony. A classic. As is DOUBLE IN TROUBLE, the one by both
Prather and Stephen Marlowe, in which Shell Scott and Chester
Drum work on the same case. It's told in alternating chapters
by Drum and Scott. Buy it if you find it.
Bill Crider
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