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	Brett Halliday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write.
		From 1946 to 1961, Halliday was married to mystery writer Helen McCloy.
		He was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1953 was given an Edgar Award for his criticism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brett_Halliday (310 words)

	LitWeb.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Halliday wrote under several pseudonyms but his fame rests on the Mike Shayne novels, the man with his own codes, and the personification of one facet the American dream.
		Brett Halliday was born as Davis Dresser in Chicago, but he grew up in West Texas.
		In the novel Halliday himself becomes the chief suspect in the murder of a young woman.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/halliday_brett.html (1087 words)

	Flagler Street--About Brett Halliday
		Brett Halliday was one of the many pseudonyms of Davis Dresser, a prolific pulp fiction writer of countless Western, romance, adventure and mystery stories.
		After Halliday gave up writing the Shayne series in 1958 with Murder and the Wanton Bride, it continued, being ghosted by such other writers as Robert Terrall, Ryerson Johnson and Dennis Lynds.
		One of the ingredients of the formula Halliday had concocted in 1939, and to which he had faithfully adhered during his tenure as Shayne's writer, was a certain timeless quality.
	www.mikeshayne.com /htbrett.html (496 words)

	Pseudonyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These same characteristics remained with Halliday until 1952, and indeed beyond, when the author, using the same pseudonym, launched an experimental series, anticipating what his two sons (then 11 and 12) would be like in early manhood.
		Unable to use the name Halliday in the USA because of the highly successful 'native' Brett Halliday, Creasey used the pseudonym Jeremy York for the Halliday books in that country, although York was already acquiring a different style and mood in Britain.
		There are 21 titles originally as by Jeremy York with some 'Halliday' titles published in the US also as by Jeremy York to avoid conflict with Brett Halliday and first published 1942.
	www.tetheredcamel.com /jc/pseudonyms.html (1118 words)

	BUPA Hospitals UK - Consultant Profile - Brett Halliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Halliday trained at Oxford Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London (senior registrar and lecturer).
		Halliday has published papers in peer reviewed journals on diagnosis of glaucoma, acuity after cataract surgery, lens power in cataract surgery, surgery of pterygium, refractive surgery including epikeratophakia and excimer laser contrast sensitivity, surgery for blepharospasm, corneal graft surgery, surgery for keratoconus, two editorials in British Medical Journal, two chapters in text books.
		Brett Halliday is married to Sharon who is an optometrist.
	www.bupahospitals.co.uk /asp/searches/consultant/ConsultantProfileDisplay.asp?cons_id=5704&og_id=2653 (215 words)

	The Mysterious Bookshelf used and rare mystery books: Hardcovers: Authors: A-K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Halliday, Brett Kill All the Young Girls Dell, 1973 1st printing, slight wear, near F. Mike Shayne is in the middle of a Hollywood film mess.
		Halliday, Brett Mermaid On the Rocks Dell, 1967 1st printing, slight wear, near F. "The moment Kitty slipped out of her bikini Mike knew he couldn't say no".
		Halliday, Brett She Woke to Darkness Dell, 1959 1st printing this ed, slight wear, near F. Mike Shayne meets a martini swigging party girl, and a party boy.
	www.strangewords.com /mysterious/paperback1a.html (6898 words)

	Michael Shayne
		"Brett Halliday" subsequently was a housename for a variety of writers, including Dennis Lynds, Sam Merwin Jr., 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 Hal Charles and James R. Reasoner.
		Although mystery writer Brett Halliday got the credit for creating this detective and bringing him to radio, he never wrote any scripts but was happy enough to pick up the royalty checks.
		Those early Halliday novels contained material that wasn't normally found in "good" comics -- drugs abounded, adultery was rampant, and the shortages in America during World War II were noted.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /shaynemike.html (2198 words)

	[3] Brett Halliday (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Brett Halliday was primarily the penname of Davis Dresser, who died in 1977.
		McGinnis often took a more muted and sophisticated approach to the Brett Halliday covers than the strictly racy Carter Brown novels, sometimes pushing suspense instead of sex.
		As the index page said, he wasn't strictly a girlie artist by any means, and though he certainly loved to paint femmes he did so in a range of styles, to the extent that I only realized that all these paperback covers were painted by the same guy long after they had been printed.
	www.vectorsite.net /zkiss_03.html (229 words)

	Mystery Writers of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.
		The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.
		It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, every year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America (100 words)

	Orange Pulp is a stylish
		There is an excerpt from John D. MacDonald's A Flash of Green and two complete (and addictive) chapters from Brett Halliday's Dividend on Death featuring South Beach P.I. Michael Shayne.
		Included are short stories by Edwin Granberry and Mary Roberts Rinehart and excerpts from novels by Carroll John Daly, Jonathan Latimer, Brett Halliday, John D. MacDonald and Stephen Ransome.
		The Rinehart story is the only work she ever set in Florida, and its inclusion as representative is baffling, but otherwise the editors' author choices are well reasoned and defensible.
	www.steveglassman.com /op.html (1858 words)

	Murder by the Experts OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They were some of the top writers in the history of mystery and the show exhibits some of the best mystery writing known on radio.
		He lost one of his eyes in barbed wire while growing up in Texas and wore an eye patch for the remainder of his life.
		His best-known work featured the private detective Michael Shayne and Halliday was equally as prolific as Carr.
	www.otrcat.com /murderbytheexperts.htm (308 words)

	Flagler Street--Home of Brett Halliday's Mike Shayne, Private Detective
		He had a tall angular body that concealed a lot of solid weight, and his freckled cheeks were thin to gauntness.
		Flagler Street, for the uninitiated, is the street in Miami on which Mike Shayne has his offices.
		The site aims to be repository of any and all pertinent Mike Shayne and Brett Halliday information, as well as a place offering the uninitiated the opportunity to get to know the character and to witness how thoroughly the character actually infiltrated all aspects of cultural media.
	www.mikeshayne.com (534 words)

	Used paperback books
		Halliday, Brett Murder and the Wanton Bride Dell 1965 3 $4.00
		Halliday, Brett Uncomplaining Corpses, The Dell 981 1958 3 $4.00
		Halliday, Brett Call for Michael Shayne Dell D269 1959 2 $4.00
	www.ramblehouse.com /paperbacksg-i.htm (1349 words)

	Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		the soundtrack CD the Brett Halliday novel on which the film is based
		For Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, writer/director Shane Black, starts with a 1941 pulp novel by prolific mystery writer Brett Halliday (1904-1977).
		Using the plot of the novel as a taking off point, Black places it in present-day Los Angeles, turns it on its head and inside out, and emerges with a self-reflexive, raunchy, witty and irreverent movie, bound to please all but the most straitlaced audiences.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies12/KissKissBangBang.htm (420 words)

	westword.com \| Film \| Private Dicks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There's also ample casual nudity from most of the actresses, which could be a reaction to studio films in which such things must be carefully negotiated with big-name stars.
		The screenplay is "based in part" on a pulp detective novel by Brett Halliday, but very loosely.
		Such post-modernist commentary can be really annoying in the wrong hands (five words: "My name is Domino Harvey"), but here, the delivery and the writing make it work.
	www.westword.com /Issues/2005-11-10/film/movies2.html (694 words)

	Crime
		EG307 HALLIDAY, Brett Murder and the Married Virgin Dell 960 1957 G Mike Shayne; some spine roll € 6
		EG309 HALLIDAY, Brett The Private Practice of Michael Shayne Dell D248 1958 G Mike Shayne; Bob McGinnis-c € 6
		EG348 HALLIDAY, Brett Murder and the Married Virgin Dell 5932 1963 VG+ Mike Shayne; Bob McGinnis-c € 6
	www.ramonschenk.nl /noncomposmentis/genres/crime.htm (2514 words)

	Stuart McIver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is essential since in some cases the writer's output has not really moved forward into the 21st century.
		Several powerhouse writers are represented: John D. MacDonald, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Brett Halliday and more recently, Charles Willeford.
		Some of the selections are short stories, some excerpts from novels and one, Don Tracy's "The Hated One," is a complete short novel, which O'Sullivan and Glassman call a "noir classic."
	www.orchardpressmysteries.com /Review-OrangePulp.html (470 words)

	What's New at Flagler Street?
		Changed the Biblio and Book Covers section in order for it to load more quickly.
		It is now two pages instead one long page--one page comprising all Halliday penned Shayne novels, 1939 to 1958, and the other comprising all non-Halliday penned Shayne novels, 1958 to 1977.
		One Night With Nora (Dell 803), The Uncomplaining Corpses (Dell 386), In A Deadly Vein (Dell 905), Murder By Proxy (Dell 5949), The Body Came Back (Dell 0672), Michael Shayne's 50th Case (Dell 5603) and The Violent World of Michael Shayne (Dell 9334).
	www.enter.net /~jsksamony/flaglerstreet/htwhat.html (173 words)

	JIVEMagazine.com
		Kiss Kiss Bang Bang resurrects the 1950’s noir detective novel with a contemporary twist of fl humor and a hauntingly sarcastic look at Hollywood, creating a blend of serious predicaments and comic mishaps.
		Based on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them (Brett Halliday), the film adds some of the same dark humor that made us laugh when Vincent Vega shoots Marvin in Pulp Fiction.
		However, writer / director Shane Black does not rely solely on the bleaker aspects of comedy, he also plays with the humorous and sometimes absurd nature of his characters.
	www.jivemagazine.com /review.php?rid=1429&rtid=4 (650 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Lantz et al., 328 (7442) 754-756
		Brett Halliday an ophthalmologist, is quite convinced that your case has a clear history of trauma, and also recognises that a baby can be shaken, and is concerned at the pendulum becomin unbalanced the other way.
		Heather Lohr is a parent who has obviously been falsely accused.
		Richard Gregson, another Consultant Ophthalmologist, is completely the opposite to Brett Halliday, and clearly leans towards stating that the father injured the child.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/328/7442/754 (7293 words)

	Sacramento News and Review November 17, 2005
		A petty thief turned would-be actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and a gay private eye (Val Kilmer) investigate the murder of a woman whose body they find in the trunk of a car they’re tailing.
		Writer Shane Black’s directorial debut (from his original script, only partly based on a vintage 1941 Michael Shayne mystery by Brett Halliday) is the sort of movie-love movie that movie lovers love, reveling in the conventions of the hard-boiled genre even as it comments on and pokes fun at them.
		Black gives it enough rattling energy, ingenious plot twists, breezy repartee, sexy banter and spirited fun to make it a hit even with audiences who don’t get every film-noir reference.
	www.newsreview.com /sacramento/Content?oid=oid:44623 (174 words)

	GORMAN, Anita G., (F), anita.gorman@sru.edu, SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
		Each of these writers has created a famous detective.
		Davis Dresser, using the pseudonym of Brett Halliday, fashioned a tough, physical, daring private investigator, Michael Shayne.
		Helen McCloy created the first detective whose day job was that of psychiatrist.
	www.sru.edu /pages/3934.asp (346 words)

	Movie-Vault.com: Print Review
		Based, in part, on the novel, "Bodies Are Where You Find Them" by Brett Halliday, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang marks longtime screenwriter Shane Black's directorial debut.
		If Black's name sounds vaguely familiar, it's because it should.
		With so much else to recommend, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, viewers will have to decide for themselves.
	www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=MJpxytSxJCHEKJBf (1027 words)

	Biblion.co.uk: Search for Author: Brett, Keywords: - Biblion.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shelf wear, wear to corners creasing to cover.
		Molly Brett had little formal training but, after a correspondence course, started illustrating and writing children's books.
		Cover a little scuffed otherwise a tight, sound copy, no inscriptions and appears lightly read..
	biblion.co.uk /search.php?stage=1&author=Brett (504 words)

	Amazon.com: Bodies Are Where You Find Them: Books: Brett Halliday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amazon.com: Bodies Are Where You Find Them: Books: Brett Halliday
		This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.
		Mike Shane, Violence is Golden, by Brett Halliday (Price: $5.00)
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0515101338?v=glance (491 words)

	• Hollywood Elsewhere •
		While it's consistently clever and entertaining, this film succeeds primarily because of the likeability of its three stars.
		Ditching Shayne, Black updates Halliday to contemporary Hollywood, putting a postmodern spin on his source.
		In his commentary, Black acknowledges his debt to Raymond Chandler, using Chandler's titles for some of his chapter headings, but never mentions Halliday, a pseudonym for Davis Dresser.
	hollywood-elsewhere.com /discland/archives/2006/06/kiss_kiss_bang.php (985 words)

	Stories, Listed by Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		* Death Stalks the Campus (with Hal Blythe) [as by Brett Halliday; *Michael Shayne], (na) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1983
		* Key of Death (with Hal Blythe) [as by Brett Halliday; *Michael Shayne], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1984
		* The Sting of Death (with Hal Blythe) [as by Brett Halliday; *Michael Shayne], (nv) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jun 1985
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/msf/s184.htm (1520 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
		Harry never even sets foot on a film set.
		Instead, Black's movie turns into a twisty tangle of murder, frame-ups and stupid lies, based loosely on Brett Halliday's novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them.
		And poor Harry weathers bullets, amputations, electroshock torture to the nethers, withering insults from Perry, and physically painful rejections from his childhood crush, a loopy actress named Harmony (Michelle Monaghan).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/k/kisskissbangbang.q.shtml (696 words)

	BookPeople \| The Largest Bookstore in Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was one of the first (and best) private-eye novels set in Texas.
		For several years, under the house name "Brett Halliday," James wrote the lead novelette in every issue of MIKE SHAYNE'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE and honed his already considerable plotting skills.
		He's writing mostly historical novels these days, but he's also doing some very entertaining novels based on the WALKER, TEXAS RANGER tv series.
	www.bookpeople.com /infobook.html?isbn=au_bc (628 words)

	Contents Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		2 • Key to a Killer [Michael Shayne] • Brett Halliday • na
		2 • The Night was Made for Murder [Michael Shayne] • Brett Halliday • na
		2 • Youth Is for Dying [Michael Shayne] • Brett Halliday • na
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/fictionmag/t624.htm (2954 words)

	Shayne Michael Shayne. Created By Brett Halliday (pseudo. Davis Dresser, Who Also Wrote As Asa Baker,
		On this site you'll find: All the latest info on my books, including excerpts, cover art, and hot links to order.
		Flagler Street--Home of Brett Halliday's Mike Shayne, Private Detective.
		Everything you wanted to know about the redheaded shamus--bibliography, book cover scans, author info, media appearances (TV.
	www.99hosted.com /names4244.html (397 words)

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