A MYSTERY HOUSE RELEASE: The name: STUART BAILEY The job: PRIVATE INVESTIGATION On his beat, you'll run into-- D. C. HALLORAN (Behind the big, blue eyes and the fleeting, antic smile, she's so frightened that she can't bear to spend the night alone.) MILDRED TRIST (She has a cold camellia face, a who the hell are you? expression--and a husband thirty years her senior.) BETTY CALLISTER (She's tickled pink--all over--at finding a bachelor like Bailey aboard her father's yacht.)
Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files.
Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 1991.