Kill the Clown Author:Richard S. Prather A Masquerade for Murder-and, man, did I look fit to kill. Yeah, that's me, Shell Scott-the privatest eye in town, laughing it up as the king of clowns-and surrounded by more underworld celebrities than the contents of Sing Sing and San Quentin combined. — Some role for a guy who thought he was playing the dashing white knight to a maiden in distr... more »ess. It's enough to make you cry-but I didn't dare. If I didn't look happy kicking up killers, confetti and corpses, this was going to be the social event of my life-like, maybe, my funeral!« less