Brett Halliday
Author · 63 books
AKA David Dresser Excerpt from Wikipedia: Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write. Dresser wrote non-series mysteries, westerns and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.
Series
Books
Weep for a Blonde
1957
Kill All The Young Girls
1973
Murder Wears a Mummers' Mask
1943
She Woke to Darkness
1954
Call for Michael Shayne
1949
In A Deadly Vein
1943
Murder in Haste
1962
Two-Gun Rio Kid
2015
Guilty as Hell
1967
Heads You Lose
1943
Blood on the Stars
1948
The Smoking Iron
1976
One Night With Nora
1953
Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve
1961
The Careless Corpse
1961
At the Point of a .38
1974
Mike Shayne's 50th Case
1965
The Uncomplaining Corpses
1940
Target
Mike Shayne
1959
Million Dollar Handle
1976
Death Has Three Lives
1955
Dolls Are Deadly
1960
Framed in Blood
1952
Marked for Murder
1945
Violence is Golden
1968
Rio Kid Justice
2015
The Corpse Came Calling
1942
Too Friendly, Too Dead
1964
Murder Takes No Holiday
1960
Tickets For Death
1941
Die Like a Dog
1959
A Taste for Violence
1949
Stranger in Town
1955
Michael Shayne's Long Chance
1944
A Redhead for Mike Shayne
1964
Killers from the Keys
1962
Mermaid on the Rocks
1967
Fourth Down to Death
1970
Bodies Are Where You Find Them
1941
Blood on Biscayne Bay
1946
Dead Man's Diary and A Taste for Cognac
1959
Murder Spins the Wheel
1966
Fit to Kill
1958
What Really Happened
1952
The Corpse That Never Was
1963
So Lush, So Deadly
1968
Shoot the Works
1957
Counterfeit Wife
1947
Murder is My Business
1945
Mum's the Word for Murder
1938
Never Kill A Client
1963
The Road to Laramie
2015
Armed... Dangerous...
1966
Nice Fillies Finish Last
1966
The Blonde Cried Murder
1957
Murder and the Married Virgin
1944
This is It, Michael Shayne
1950
Michael Shayne's Triple Mystery
1948
Shoot to Kill
1965
Lady, Be Bad
1969
Dividend on Death
1939
The Private Practice of Michael Shayne
1940
When Dorinda Dances
1951
