Brett Halliday
Рождение : 1904-07-31, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Смерть : 1977-02-04
История
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 Michael Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write. Dresser wrote non-series mysteries, westerns and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.
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Novel
Зайдя на Рождество в нью-йоркский магазин игрушек, симпатичный вор Гарри Локхарт случайно нажимает на сигнализацию и, спасаясь бегством от полиции, попадает на кинопробы в детективный фильм. Продюсеру нравится его напористость, и он приглашает Гарри в Голливуд. Готовит Локхарта к кинопробе Перри ван Шрайк, настоящий сыщик, оказавшийся к тому же еще и гомосексуалистом. На роль главной героини претендует актриса Хармони Фэйт, с которой Гарри связывает общая любовь к детективным историям Джонни Госсамера. Однажды ночью Перри берет Гарри с собой на задание, и в итоге им приходится заняться расследованием убийства некоей женщины. Затем, как и в романе Госсамера, возникает еще одна детективная линия: сестра Хармони совершает самоубийство, которое, как выясняется, имеет прямое отношение к обнаруженному Перри и Гарри трупу…
Story
Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.
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A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Characters
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Screenplay
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.
Novel
A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.
Characters
Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.
Story
Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.
Characters
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
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Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
Characters
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Characters
Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Characters
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
Story
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Characters
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
Characters
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Novel
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
