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Mike Shayne #41
The Careless Corpse
From back of the "Three unsigned valentines, stamped with blackmail and sealed in blood invite Mike Shayne to accept a proposal of murder - his latest and most explosive case."
- GenresMystery
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First published January 1, 1961
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About the author
Brett Halliday
510 books63 followersAKA David Dresser
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
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. 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.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
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. 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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January 5, 2020
The Mike Shayne mystery series was one of the longest running and best received of the many mystery series in the fifties and sixties. Brett Halliday was a pseudonym for Davis Dresser although it later - after 1958 - became a house name under which others such as Terrell wrote additional Mime Shayne mysteries. No matter who penned them, all of the Shayne books are well-written, well-plotted, and fun to read.
Big, redheaded Mike Shayne is a private eye out of Miami, good buddies with police chief Will Gentry and reporter Tom O'Rourke. Lucy Hamilton is his gorgeous secretary who he has an on again off again love affair with. The Shayne books were written to have wide appeal and hint at sex and murder without showing much. These are mainstream mysteries, not pulpy or noir events.
Here, in a mystery so well written that the pages practically turn themselves, Shayne gets involved with stolen jewels, a wealthy Cuban expat's estate, a gambling lady, and various Miami dive bars. The story gets a bit complicated, but it moves real well. If you like private eye stories, you won't go wrong with this one.
Big, redheaded Mike Shayne is a private eye out of Miami, good buddies with police chief Will Gentry and reporter Tom O'Rourke. Lucy Hamilton is his gorgeous secretary who he has an on again off again love affair with. The Shayne books were written to have wide appeal and hint at sex and murder without showing much. These are mainstream mysteries, not pulpy or noir events.
Here, in a mystery so well written that the pages practically turn themselves, Shayne gets involved with stolen jewels, a wealthy Cuban expat's estate, a gambling lady, and various Miami dive bars. The story gets a bit complicated, but it moves real well. If you like private eye stories, you won't go wrong with this one.
January 18, 2021
Complicated Bumbling Stew
Stolen necklaces, Feds, Police acting weird, Lucy gets kidnapped, throw in some Cuban gun runners, so what do you think Mike? I don't know, I want a drink, leave the bottle please. Ok I guess.
Stolen necklaces, Feds, Police acting weird, Lucy gets kidnapped, throw in some Cuban gun runners, so what do you think Mike? I don't know, I want a drink, leave the bottle please. Ok I guess.
March 21, 2025
The biggest crime is the title, snatched from Erle Stanley Gardner and mis-applied to this mystery of a stolen bracelet with post-Castro Cuban intrigue in Miami.
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