>Brian said:
>You could also add Brett Halliday to the overlooked
and
>underappreciated list...
>
>************
>Abebooks has quite a selection of Halliday novels.
Can
>you recommend a few good ones?
>
>thanks, miker
Mike, For Halliday, who wrote only a handful of the Mike
Shayne books (every Shayne book after 1958 was done by ghost
writers), I would start with either THIS IS IT, MICHAEL
SHAYNE or A TASTE FOR VIOLENCE. Both represent the spectrum
of the Shayne adventures. THIS IS IT is a fast-paced
whodunnit that takes place over a couple of days and the
action never lets up; TASTE is a Red Harvest riff that's
slower-paced but just as good, if not better, because of all
the intrigue. I'd get both and have a ball. I managed to grab
both in hardcover at a used shop in Portland, OR, during a
recent visit. You can't miss either either one. Shayne is a
great PI - uses his brain instead of a gun but he's still
tough as nails. --Brian
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