Brett Halliday
How are Brett Halliday’s Michael Shayne mystery novels?
I’m going to buy the first few sometime this week. Are they any good?
I have read about 10 of the 50 Mike Shayne novels that were written between 1939 and 1976. They are all plot driven and in all the novels there is a sexy girl involved. Shayne was married in the earlier books but she was murdered which allowed Shayne to pursue a little romance with some lovely ladies. You can usually pick them up for a song at most used book stores. I think the author’s real name was Davis Dresser. If you like light PI novels with good plots, you should enjoy these books. The first book “Dividend on Death” is the best of the 10 or so I have read.
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Three Cases of Murder [VHS] $14.98 This wonderfully eerie film is based on three mysteries by Somerset Maugham, Roderick Wilkinson, and Brett Halliday. In the first tale, a doomed museum guard is magically transported into his favorite painting. In the second, two friends fall in love with the same woman, who is suddenly killed. The dramatic finale stars Orson Welles as a statesman driven mad by guilt after he destroys his polit… |
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Dressed to Kill $6.98 The long-delayed visit to the marriage bureau for private eye Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) and girlfriend Joanne (Mary Beth Hughes) is interrupted by gunshots in a nearby theater. Shayne uncovers a bizarre series of murders in which the victims were dressed as their characters in a play, but can he solve the case and get to the altar? Third entry in Fox’s “Michael Shayne” whodunit series also star… |
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Michael Shayne Mysteries: Volume One $17.99 From 1940 to 1942, Lloyd Nolan brought criminals to justice as Brett Halliday’s hard-hitting gumshoe Michael Shayne. This two-disc collection starts with the series opener “Michael Shayne, Private Detective” (1940), in which Nolan is accused of killing the boyfriend of the racetrack mogul’s daughter he was hired to watch. Marjorie Weaver co-stars. Next, a cross-country train ride with a murder tri… |
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The Hollywood Doll Private Detective Carl Porter takes his first trip west from the chill of his native Boston to investigate the death of an aspiring actress.The Golden State looks darker under the long shadow of the Hollywood sign in this SoCal mystery from the Kindle bestselling author of Humdinger.Also Available by Sam Stone: Ring A Ding… |
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Death Goes To The Post (A Michael Shayne Mystery) Street & Smith’s Detective Story, January 1943DEATH GOES TO THE POSTby Davis Dresseras Brett HallidayMichael Shayne lays down a bet at Hialeah-and so manages to make a losing ticket pay off on a corpse.One of the most successful of all fictional detectives is the rough, tough Michael Shayne. While other private eyes rise and fall, Shayne just keeps on solving gory charivaris-and cutting himself re… |
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Don’t Fence Me Out (A Michael Shayne Mystery) Mammoth Detective, August 1945DON’T FENCE ME OUTA Michael Shayne Mysteryby Davis Dresseras Brett HallidayNobody could figure why Moore refused to halt at a sentry’s command when it meant death to go on. To learn why a civilian was shot down by an Army sentry, Mike Shayne began digging into garbage cans. 10,300 Words… |
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