About the book: year / Richard Prater - American writer. Born in Santa Ana, California. After graduating from college, he worked in the merchant marine, served at an air base, and grew fruit on his own farm. His first novel, The Case of the Vanishing Beauty, was published in 1950. Prater was mentioned - if it weren’t for the author’s name on the cover of the books and not the name of the main character, all of his books could have been attributed to other veterans of the “black” genre. Fascinating. Helps to achieve Nirvana - after reading there is a blank page in your head. Despite all his “unbearable lightness” (or perhaps because of it), Prater was one of the best-selling authors. In the list of 150 bestsellers of the last third of the twentieth century, his novels occupied 16 lines. Contents:1. The case of the missing beauty 2. Bodies in Bedlam 3. And everyone is armed 4. Find this woman 5. Nest of debauchery (Translation: I. Mansurov)6. Dear, this is death 7. There are only liars around (Translation: V. Mednikov)8. Leave no witnesses! (Translation: N. Alexandrova)9. Bare Yourself to Kill 10. Desperate Pursuit (Translation: I. Nevzlina)11. A torn up anthill (Translation: P. Rubtsov)12. Death will choose you (Translation: I. Ozerov)13. Four from Srinagar 14. Double trouble (Translation: I. Mansurov)15. Dance with a Dead Man 16. Dig up this damn grave (Translation: O. Lapikova)17. More than fear (Translation: P. Rubtsov)18. Kill the Clown (Translation: G. Bazhanova)19. Joker in the deck (Translation: I. Ozerov)20. Death Ranch 21. Trojan Hearse 22. Execute him twice (Translation: I. Turbin)23. Wandering corpses 24. The case of “Kublai Khan” (Translation: I. Mansurov)25. The warmth of a weapon (Translation: I. Ozerov)26. Cheim's manuscript (Translation: I. Manenok)27. Kill me tomorrow 28. Wake up alive (Translation: P. Rubtsov)29. Vernyak (Translation: L. Zhelokhovtseva)30. Amber effect (Translation: Evgeniy Sinelshchikov)31. Shellshock (Translation: Evgeny Sinelshchikov)