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Halliday, Brett

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'Brett Halliday', primary pen name of Davis Dresser (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write.

 

He was born in Chicago, Illinois but mostly grew up in West Texas. He lost an eye to barbed wire as a boy, which required him to wear an eye patch for the rest of his life. At the age of 14 he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. 5th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by a year of border patrol duty on the Rio Grande. After his service was up, he returned to Texas to finish high school. He graduated from Tri-State College in Civil Engineering. He worked for a time as an engineer and as a surveyor, and then started as writer in 1927.

 

From 1946 to 1961, Halliday was married to mystery writer Helen McCloy. They were also partners in a literary agency that bore their names, as well as in Torquil Publishing Company, which published his books from 1953 to 1965. Prior to this, he had been married to Kathleen Rollins, and their betrothal had provided him with two stepdaughters.

 

Halliday also wrote non-series mysteries and westerns under the names Asa Baker, Mathew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, and Anderson Wayne. Meanwhile, the popular name 'Brett Halliday' was taken on after 1958 by a long list of other writers who continued his series of short stories.

 

He was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1953 was given an Edgar Award for his criticism.

 

He lived in Santa Barbara, California, until his death at the age of 72.

 

Bibliography

 

Dividend On Death (1939)

The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940)

The Uncomplaining Corpse (1940)

Tickets for Death (1941)

Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941)

The Corpse Came Calling aka The Case of the Walking Corpse (1942)

Murder Wears A Mummer's Mask aka In A Deadly Vein (1943)

Blood On the Black Market aka Heads You Lose (1943)

Michael Shayne's Long Chance (1944)

Murder and the Married Virgin (1944)

Murder Is My Business (1945)

Marked for Murder (1945)

Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946)

Counterfeit Wife (1947)

Blood On the Stars aka Murder Is a Habit (1948)

Michael Shayne's Triple Mystery (1945) aka Dead Man's Diary and Dinner at Dupre's, Dead Man's Diary and A Taste for Cognac, or A Taste for Cognac

A Taste for Violence (1949)

Call for Michael Shayne (1949)

This Is It, Michael Shayne (1950)

Framed In Blood (1951)

What Really Happened (1952)

When Dorinda Dances (1951)

One Night With Nora aka The Lady Came By Night (1953)

She Woke to Darkness (1954)

Death Has Three Lives (1955)

Stranger In Town (1955)

The Blonde Cried Murder (1956)

Weep For a Blonde (1957)

Shoot the Works (1957)

Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958)

 

'Brett Halliday' books by Robert Terrall

Fit to Kill (1958)

Target: Mike Shayne (1959)

Murder In Haste (1961)

The Violent World of Michael Shayne (1965)

Nice Fillies Finish Last (1965)

Murder Spins the Wheel (1966)

Armed Dangerous (1966)

Mermaid On the Rocks (1967)

Guilty As Hell (1967)

So Lush, So Deadly (1968)

Violence Is Golden (1968)

Lady Be Bad (1969)

Six Seconds to Kill (1970)

Fourth Down to Death (1970)

Count Backwards to Zero (1971)

I Come to Kill You (1971)

Caught Dead (1971)

Kill All the Young Girls (1973)

Blue Murder (1973)

Last Seen Hitchhiking (1974)

At the Point of a 38 (1974)

Million Dollar Handle (1976)

 

'Brett Halliday' books by Ryerson Johnson

Dolls Are Deadly (1960)

The Killers from the Keys (1961)

 

'Brett Halliday' books by Dennis Lynds

Too Friendly, Too Dead (1963)

 

'Brett Halliday' books by unidentified house author(s)

Date With a Dead Man (1959)

Die Like a Dog (1959)

Murder Takes No Holiday (1960)

The Homicidal Virgin (1960)

The Careless Corpse (1961)

Pay-Off In Blood (1962)

Murder By Proxy (1962)

Never Kill A Client (1962)

The Corpse That Never Was (1963)

The Body Came Back (1963)

A Redhead for Mike Shayne (1964)

Shoot to Kill (1964)

Michael Shayne's 50th Case (1964)

Win Some, Lose Some (1976)

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