> I thought "Brett Halliday" was a pseudonym, no?
Wasn't the original
> Brett actually David Dresdner or something like
that?
Davis Dresser, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Matthew
Blood (two novels co-authored with Ryerson Johnson), Hal
Debrett, Asa Baker, the house-name Peter Field, his own name,
and probably others. Colorful guy, and I've always enjoyed
his writing in both mystery and Western genres.
> Are there any Halliday/Shayne fans here? Any
perspectives on the
> series?
I've read most of the novels. The later ones, like FOURTH
DOWN TO DEATH, are by Robert Terrall, and while they're
certainly competent, I never liked them as much as the
earlier ones by Dresser and occasional ghosts. To me Mike
Shayne is really a character who belongs in the Forties,
Fifties, and early Sixties. Once the stories get past that
point, he seems sort of out of place to me, which is why I
made my Shayne stories in MSMM sort of vague as to their time
period. I was really writing Forties and Fifties Shayne
stories as much as I could, even though it was the Seventies
and Eighties.
James Reasoner
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