RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday was a pseudonym. Davis Dresser wrote the books up to and including Murder and the Wanton Bride, number 30. This list comes from Gary Warren Niebuhr <piesbook@execpc.com>.

Books

1. Dividend On Death (1939)
2. The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940)
3. The Uncomplaining Corpse (1940)
4. Tickets for Death (1941)
5. Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941)
6. The Corpse Came Calling (aka The Case of the Walking Corpse) (1942)
7. Murder Wears A Mummer's Mask (aka In A Deadly Vein) (1943)
8. Blood On the Black Market (aka Heads You Lose) (1943)
9. Michael Shayne's Long Chance (1944)
10. Murder and the Married Virgin (1944)
11. Murder Is My Business (1945)
12. Marked for Murder (1945)
13. Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946)
14. Counterfeit Wife (1947)
15. Blood On the Stars (aka Murder Is a Habit) (1948)
16. 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, All three noveletters appear in Triple; otherwise the Dell reprints both had Dead and a different companion story. Triple was not published until 1948 and is listed her first. Taste appeared as Dell 10c paperback #15)
17. A Taste for Violence (1949)
18. Call for Michael Shayne (1949)
19. This Is It, Michael Shayne (1950)
20. Framed In Blood (1951)
21. What Really Happened (1952)
22. When Dorinda Dances (1951)
23. One Night With Nora (aka The Lady Came By Night) (1953)
24. She Woke to Darkness (1954)
25. Death Has Three Lives (1955)
26. Stranger In Town (1955)
27. The Blonde Cried Murder (1956)
28. Weep For a Blonde (1957)
29. Shoot the Works (1957)
30. Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958)
31. Fit to Kill (by Robert Terrall) (1958)
32. Date With a Dead Man (by house author, expansion of novelette Dead Man's Diary) (1959)
33. Target: Mike Shayne (by Robert Terrall) (1959)
34. Die Like a Dog (by house author) (1959)
35. Murder Takes No Holiday (by house author) (1960)
36. Dolls Are Deadly (by Ryerson Johnson) (1960)
37. The Homicidal Virgin (by house author) (1960)
38. The Killers from the Keys (by Ryerson Johnson) (1961)
39. Murder In Haste (by Robert Terrall) (1961)
40. The Careless Corpse (by house author) (1961)
41. Pay-Off In Blood (by house author) (1962)
42. Murder By Proxy (by house author) (1962)
43. Never Kill A Client (by house author) (1962)
44. Too Friendly, Too Dead (by Dennis Lynds) (1963)
45. The Corpse That Never Was (by house author) (1963)
46. The Body Came Back (by house author) (1963)
47. A Redhead for Mike Shayne (by house author) (1964)
48. Shoot to Kill (by house author) (1964)
49. Michael Shayne's 50th Case (by house author) (1964) (Publisher counts Muchael Shayne's Torrid Twelve in the count, which contains only one short story by Halliday)
50. The Violent World of Michael Shayne (by Robert Terrall) (1965)
51. Nice Fillies Finish Last (by Robert Terrall) (1965)
52. Murder Spins the Wheel (by Robert Terrall) (1966)
53. Armed ... Dangerous ... (by Robert Terrall) (1966)
54. Mermaid On the Rocks (by Robert Terrall) (1967)
55. Guilty As Hell (by Robert Terrall) (1967)
56. So Lush, So Deadly (by Robert Terrall) (1968)
57. Violence Is Golden (by Robert Terrall) (1968)
58. Lady Be Bad (by Robert Terrall) (1969)
59. Six Seconds to Kill (by Robert Terrall) (1970)
60. Fourth Down to Death (by Robert Terrall) (1970)
61. Count Backwards to Zero (by Robert Terrall) (1971)
62. I Come to Kill You (by Robert Terrall) (1971)
63. Caught Dead (by Robert Terrall) (1971)
64. Caught Dead (by Robert Terrall) (1972)
65. Kill All the Young Girls (by Robert Terrall) (1973)
66. Blue Murder (by Robert Terrall) (1973)
67. Last Seen Hitchhiking (by Robert Terrall) (1974)
68. At the Point of a .38 (by Robert Terrall) (1974)
69. Million Dollar Handle (by Robert Terrall) (1976)
70. Win Some, Lose Some (by house author) (1976)