On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, William Denton wrote:
> Mr. Reasoner on the list actually *was* Brett
Halliday for a while.
> Perhaps you could tell us about how you came to
write for the Mike Shayne
> Mystery magazine, and what it was like? Are there
any other Brett
> Hallidays on the list? In late September, Mr.
Reasoner said:
> | Lynds wrote nearly all of the Mike Shayne stories
in the magazine from
> | 1963-70. I forget what his total was, but it was
more than anyone else
> | who wrote magazine Shaynes. I wrote 38 of them
between '78 and '82. A
> | lot of people wrote Shayne stories for the
magazine.
I've read one Brett Halliday by Lynds AKA Michael Collins,
"Too Friendly, Too Dead" from 1963, if I remember correctly.
It was a very good one and you could see very easily who it
was written by. It was like reading "Act of Fear", but
without Dan Fortune sermoning all the time. This would
implify that the editors at Dell (?) didn't pay attention how
Shayne was depicted and what the plotlines were like.
Furthermore I think that Lynds managed to bring Shayne a bit
closer to a private detective really doing his work. In the
Hallidays I've read that were actually written by Halliday,
Shayne just gets into the trouble and somehow manages, but in
this Shayne really does the foot work and all that stuff.
Therefore I'd like to regard it more highly than the real
Hallidays.
Juri
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