Re: RARA-AVIS: Brett Halliday nom de plume

William Denton (buff@vex.net)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:32:04 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 dspurlock@humana.com wrote:

: "Brett Halliday" is said to be a pseudonym of Bill Pronzini. This is
: the first time I'd heard this. Is this info correct?

James Reasoner said last year:

"Others who contributed Shayne stories as Brett Halliday include
Dennis Lynds (the most prolific, with approximately 80 stories),
Michael Avallone, Richard Deming, Robert Turner, Robert Arthur, Frank
Belknap Long, Bill Pronzini and Jeff Wallman, Edward Y. Breese, Peter
Germano, Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet, and yours truly..."

Looks like Brett Halliday was a lot of people!

I rustled this up from the archives at

<URL: http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/archives/9710/0066.html>

See also

<URL: http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/archives/9709/0012.html>

where Mr. Reasoner talks about the first Shayne story he did.

Bill

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