Shane Scully is a fictional character who has appeared in eleven detective stories by novelist and television producer Stephen J. Cannell.
Starting with Vertical Coffin, Chooch's girlfriend Delfina also lives with the Scully Family.
Examples include Hollywood Tough, where he convinced the LAPD to finance a major motion picture in order to solve the murder of a prostitute.
In Cold Hit, he convinced the LAPD to challenge the authority of the Department of Homeland Security in order to solve a series of unsolved serial murders.
Scully tends to dislike the media (comparing them to maggots in Cold Hit) as well as most bureaucracy as he sees them as interfering with his work.