From Library Journal
Prather's happy-go-lucky PI Sheldon "Shell" Scott is hired simultaneously to locate a missing girl and to escort his client, the girl's sister, around town. Bullets then fly and people die in this innuendo-laden, off-the-wall adventure full of wisecracking good humor or adolescent sexist drivel (depending upon your viewpoint). Reviewing this tape is like listening to an off-center Mike Hammer tale, chock-full of eccentric metaphors. This parody of PI mysteries is well read by Maynard Villers, who provides interest and depth to the story and characters. Recommended.ADenise A. Garofalo, Mid-Hudson Lib. Syst., Poughkeepsie, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
This first novel featuring wisecracking L.A. private eye Shell Scott, first published in 1950, is a fast-paced caper featuring missing women, dead women, and naked women, against a backdrop of Mexican nightclubs, dope peddlers, and religious cults. Maynard Villers's rich, flexible voice captures the sarcastic wit of the P.I. and smoothly shifts to the voices of attractive female clients, Hispanic actresses and gruff cops. On the downside, Villers's pacing lags; long pauses follow his quickly delivered lines. The no-nonsense story is marred by the noise of flipping pages. Nonetheless, this is a hard-boiled trip down mean streets. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
