Book: ‘Find This Woman’ by Richard S. Prather – November 15th, 2016
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.15, 2016, under Books
Find This Woman by Richard S. Prather
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A nifty tale of Shell Scott in hot pursuit of someone he doesn’t know in Las Vegas. One of the niftier bits in this book is that it portrays 1950 Las Vegas. Prior to the extravagant glitz that would swarm the area years later.
Prather again power packs 160 pages that lesser writers today seem to have trouble corralling in 400 pages. This tale gets diverted as others get in the way that Scott must work around to learn what happened to two missing people. How Prather handles the plotting with so many complications is admirable. It’s fun, exciting and well written.
There is a bit involving Scott and desguises which is a bit much, but that was the only real drawback. Smaller trouble is just my historic preservationist self wishing there was far more written about the structures involved.
Bottom line: i recommend this book. 9 out of ten points.
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