Brett Halliday
by Davis Dresser
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- Author: Davis Dresser
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Some seventy Mike Shayne novels, more than three hundred issues of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (always with a lead Shayne novella), and three annuals have appeared, all using the Brett Halliday pseudonym. It is impossible to determine how many of these stories Davis Dresser actually wrote, though it is believed that most books that appeared under the Halliday name after 1958 are the work of either Robert Terrall or Ryerson Johnson.
Brett Halliday broke from the hard-boiled cliché of the heavy-drinking, two-fisted, womanizing private investigator....
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