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Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer.
Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned others to continue. Dresser also wrote westerns, non-series mysteries, and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.

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Born 31 July 1904
Died 4 February 1977

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  • Cover of: Death Has Three Lives

    First published in 1955 8 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1953 7 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: What Really Happened

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  • Cover of: The Private Practice of Michael Shayne

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    First published in 1947 6 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: This Is It Michael Shayne

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  • Cover of: Michael Shayne's Long Chance

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  • Cover of: Dividend on Death

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    First published in 1959 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Murder and the Married Virgin

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Born 31 July 1904
Died 4 February 1977
Subjects
Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Shayne, michael (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, westerns, Fiction, Michael Shayne (Fictitious character), Crime, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, romance, general, Criminals, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, El paso (tex.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, thrillers, general, Private investigators, fiction

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