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Brett Halliday (1904–1977)

Autor(a) de Murder Is My Business (Mike Shayne Mysteries)

177+ Works 2,551 Membros 56 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) After 1958, beginning with Fit to Kill, Brett Halliday was a house name used by several authors. Most were written by Robert Terrall, with some written by Ryerson Johnson and Dennis Lynds.  This note is from the Stop, you're killing me, website.

Séries

Obras por Brett Halliday

Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941) 76 exemplares
Dividend on Death (1939) 59 exemplares
The Corpse Came Calling (1942) 58 exemplares
A Taste for Violence (1949) 57 exemplares
In a Deadly Vein (1943) 53 exemplares
Framed in Blood (1951) 52 exemplares
This is it, Michael Shayne (1950) 50 exemplares
When Dorinda Dances (1951) 49 exemplares
The Uncomplaining Corpses (1940) 49 exemplares
Michael Shayne's Long Chance (1944) 48 exemplares
Marked for murder (1945) 47 exemplares
Blood on the Stars (1948) 44 exemplares
Blood on the Black Market (1943) 44 exemplares
Stranger in Town (1955) 42 exemplares
Murder and the Married Virgin (1944) 41 exemplares
Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946) 41 exemplares
Counterfeit Wife (1947) 41 exemplares
Call for Michael Shayne (1949) 40 exemplares
Target: Mike Shayne (1959) 39 exemplares
Die Like a Dog (1959) 39 exemplares
Tickets for Death (1941) 37 exemplares
Mum's the Word for Murder (1938) 37 exemplares
Weep for a Blonde (1957) 36 exemplares
Dolls are Deadly (1960) 36 exemplares
One Night with Nora (1953) 35 exemplares
What Really Happened (1952) 35 exemplares
Fit to Kill (1958) 34 exemplares
The Homicidal Virgin (1960) 34 exemplares
Date with a Dead Man (1959) 34 exemplares
Never Kill a Client (1962) 34 exemplares
Death Has Three Lives (1955) 33 exemplares
She Woke to Darkness (1954) 32 exemplares
Murder Takes No Holiday (1960) 32 exemplares
A Redhead for Mike Shayne (1964) 31 exemplares
The Blonde Cried Murder (1956) 31 exemplares
Shoot the Works (1957) 30 exemplares
Nice Fillies Finish Last (1965) 30 exemplares
Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958) 30 exemplares
Murder in Haste (1961) 27 exemplares
The Careless Corpse (1961) 25 exemplares
Guilty as Hell (1967) 24 exemplares
So Lush, So Deadly (1968) 24 exemplares
Too Friendly, Too Dead (1963) 22 exemplares
Armed... Dangerous... (1966) 21 exemplares
Shoot to Kill (1964) 20 exemplares
Murder By Proxy (1962) 20 exemplares
Six Seconds to Kill (1970) 20 exemplares
Murder Spins the Wheel (1966) 19 exemplares
Mermaid on the Rocks (1967) 18 exemplares
Violence is Golden (1968) 18 exemplares
Before I Wake (1949) 18 exemplares
Mike Shayne's 50th Case (1964) 18 exemplares
Killers From The Keys (1961) 18 exemplares
The Body Came Back (1963) 17 exemplares
Pay-Off in Blood (1962) 16 exemplares
Fourth Down to Death (1970) 15 exemplares
Dangerous Dames (1955) 15 exemplares
Lady, Be Bad (1969) 15 exemplares
The Corpse That Never Was (1963) 14 exemplares
At the Point of a .38 (1974) 12 exemplares
Return of the Rio Kid (1949) 12 exemplares
A Taste for Cognac (1951) 11 exemplares
Last Seen Hitchhiking (1974) 11 exemplares
Count Backwards to Zero (1971) 10 exemplares
I Come To Kill You (1971) 10 exemplares
The Hangmen of Sleepy Valley (2015) 10 exemplares
Caught Dead (1972) 10 exemplares
Blue Murder (1973) 8 exemplares
Death Rides the Pecos (1950) 7 exemplares
Murder in Miami (1959) 7 exemplares
Kill All The Young Girls (1973) 7 exemplares
Best Detective Stories of the Year: 17th Annual Collection (1962) — Editor; Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Kissed Corpse (2015) 6 exemplares
20 Great Tales of Murder (1951) — Contribuidor; Editor — 6 exemplares
Heads You Loose (1958) 6 exemplares
Million Dollar Handle (1976) 6 exemplares
Death Rides the Night (1952) 6 exemplares
Lynch-Rope Law (1952) 6 exemplares
Dead Man's Diary (1945) 5 exemplares
Ladies of Chance (1949) 5 exemplares
The Road to Laramie (1947) 5 exemplares
Gun Smoke on the Mesa (2015) 4 exemplares
Win Some, Lose Some (1976) 4 exemplares
Virgin's Holiday (2015) 3 exemplares
Mardi Gras Madness (2015) 3 exemplares
Charlie Dell (2015) 2 exemplares
Murder, Murder, Murder (1961) — Editor — 2 exemplares
Lynch-Rope Law 1 exemplar
El asesinato es mi negocio (1992) 1 exemplar
7+1 =P 1 exemplar
What really happened! etc (2015) 1 exemplar
Verità in cenere 1 exemplar
Jaget vilt (1972) 1 exemplar
Big Time Mysteries 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (1961) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Miami Noir: The Classics (2020) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Four and Twenty Bloodhounds (1950) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Dolls Are Murder : a Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1957) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Murder Cavalcade (1946) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Argosy, October 22, 1938 (1938) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Dresser, Davis
Outros nomes
Halliday, Brett
Baker, Asa
Blood, Matthew
Culver, Kathryn
Davis, Don
Debrett, Hal (mostrar todos 9)
Scott, Anthony
Field, Peter
Wayne, Anderson
Data de nascimento
1904-07-31
Data de falecimento
1977-02-04
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Local de falecimento
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Educação
Tri-State College of Engineering
Ocupações
literary agent
publisher
surveyor
Relações
McCloy, Helen (wife, 1946-1961, divorced)
Savage, Mary (second wife)
Nota de desambiguação
After 1958, beginning with Fit to Kill, Brett Halliday was a house name used by several authors. Most were written by Robert Terrall, with some written by Ryerson Johnson and Dennis Lynds.  This note is from the Stop, you're killing me, website.

Membros

Críticas

Mike Shayne, one of the iconic Private Eyes, is drawn into a complex murder plot. You know, for him, Wednesday. It holds your attention.
 
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DinadansFriend | Oct 7, 2023 |
Not great but not boring, either. (And it's short.) I had read one of Halliday's Mike Shayne stories, "The Reluctant Client," in The Great American Detective and enjoyed it enough to seek out this novel. On the basis of that story, however, I was expecting something with a grim hard-boiled atmosphere; what I got was a workmanlike tale about a series of murders in 1940s El Paso, with a cast of tolerable but somewhat corny, clichéd characters. It's very much a book of its time, full of stereotypical small-town cops, yellow journalists and various other seedy types. The story moves quickly and is reasonably entertaining, but there's no atmosphere or mood: nothing that casts a spell on the reader and draws him completely into the book. I can't hold it against the author that Murder Is My Business is not a hard-boiled crime novel in the tradition of Hammett and Chandler; clearly that's not what Halliday set out to write, and the lack of customary private eye trappings doesn't make this a bad book. But I can justly criticize the publisher for packaging it as a hard-boiled novel, since that's obviously the conclusion one is meant to draw from the languid, pistol-toting dame on the cover. It's more Jim Rockford than Sam Spade, though.

Two and a half stars.
… (mais)
 
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Jonathan_M | 5 outras críticas | May 10, 2021 |
Private eye Mike Shayne is in the town where I was born, El Paso, Texas, to investigate the death of Private James Brown, who was killed in a traffic accident. Or was he? The private was stationed at Fort Bliss - the base I was born on!
Pretty good noir read! You've got bodies, body doubles, silver mining, the U.S./Mexico border going's on, a mayoral race, and soldiers exchanging clothing! All in a little hard-boiled detective novel/novella (it's a quick read!)! Not quite Raymond Chandler, but good enough to keep me guessing and keep me entertained! I'd read another Mike Shayne mystery based on this book!… (mais)
 
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Stahl-Ricco | 5 outras críticas | Sep 10, 2020 |
This was a pleasant discovery. Mike Shayne is a bit more cynical than most, and he certainly makes sure to get paid. But those are not bad traits as he finds out the truth at the end. The story has as scheme to smuggle army deserters into Mexico, something about a silver mine, and murder. These items are certainly a good recipe for a mystery that Mike Shayne slowly unravels. The author does put in a bit misdirection, but if you are an attentive reader you can figure things out as you read along. Then again, as many detective stories, you will find out the real truth at the end, and I have to say, I did enjoy the ending quite a bit. I will certainly keep my eye out for other Shayne mysteries now. Also, the book is a pretty easy read, so if you enjoy hard boiled detective fiction, you will certainly enjoy this one.… (mais)
 
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bloodravenlib | 5 outras críticas | Aug 17, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
177
Also by
10
Membros
2,551
Popularidade
#10,065
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
56
ISBN
159
Línguas
5
Marcado como favorito
2

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