----- Original Message ----- From: "Juri Nummelin" <
jurnum@utu.fi> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000
3:36 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Brett Halliday pseudonyms
> I can't find this information anywhere else: who has
written
> the following Brett Halliday books?
>
> The Careless Corpse (1961)
> Pay-Off in Blood (1962)
> Too Friendly, Too Deadly (1963)
> The Corpse That Never Was (1963)
I've been lurking again for a while, but I have to respond to
this one. I know Too Friendly, Too Dead is by Dennis Lynds
(expanded from his first Shayne story in MSMM, "The Friendly
Corpse"). I *think* Lynds also wrote The Corpse That Never
Was, but I'm not sure about that one. Davis Dresser's other
ghosts prior to Robert Terrall taking over the Shayne series
full-time were Ryerson Johnson and Helen Kasson. I know
Johnson wrote Dolls Are Deadly and Killers From the Keys, not
sure about any other titles, nor do I remember which ones
Kasson wrote. (Actually, I'm not sure Kasson ever contributed
anything except story ideas, which would make her more of a
collaborator than a ghost, but I could easily be wrong about
that. I'm going by memory of stuff Lynds told me twenty years
ago.)
By the way, all the posts about James Atlee Philips have
prompted me to go get some of the Joe Gall books off my
shelves to read. I think Bill Crider mentioned Philips's
first book, The Inheritors, which was reprinted in paperback
under the title The Naked Year. One of the first books about
the underbelly of high society in Texas.
Best, James
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