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Mike Shayne #13
Blood on Biscayne Bay
Cover by Robert McGinnis.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1946
About the author
Brett Halliday
429 books55 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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August 22, 2016
This was a PI novel in Brett Halliday's long running series of his Mike Shayne character. Originally published in 1946. The tall red headed private detective solves a double murder case in the magic city of Miami. At the end when he was wrapping up this who done it quick read I did not picture a tall red headed detective, instead I kept visualizing Peter Falk in his famous Columbo role 20 years earlier than he came around. Lets put all the suspects in one room together and no one's leaving until I get the answers I want to hear. It's an outdated novel but if you like the nostalgic PI novels written in the '40's & '50's it's worth the read.
January 5, 2015
The Michael Shayne series was written from the early '40's to the mid '70's, almost seventy cases about the big redhead. The very prolific Brett Halliday (pseudonym used by Davis Dresser) was pumping these out during the era of the pulp/noir style PI. With plenty of whiskey, young women married to older successful "business men", and plenty of cigarette smoke drifting to the ceilings....this series is what made the pulp era so damn good.
July 14, 2017
Blood on Biscayne Bay is yet another top notch Shayne mystery, picking up where the previous book Marked For Murder left off. Shayne still lives in New Orleans with his secretary Lucy Hamilton manning the office. Reporter Tim Rourke is still recovering from his attempted murder and drowning his troubles in bottle after bottle of booze. Shayne is back in Miami briefly to do a favor for a friend and little does he know that the favor will lead him into a web of gambling debts, blackmail, divorce proceedings, and murder. Some of the shenanigans between divorcing couples seem strange in light of today's no-fault divorce laws, but back then it kept detectives busy. It all ends with the age-old scene where all the suspects are gathered in the parlor as the detective announces one of you in this room is the murderer and then proceeds to lay out the evidence.
March 17, 2015
I was very impressed with this book. I became familiar with Halliday through the Pulp Fiction book club, and had picked out this one, based in Miami, thinking it would be fun to read on what of my frequent trips back and see what locations were mentioned. Of the many Chandler imitators/contemporaries, Halliday nails the style better than most. The book is fun throughout and has a great Agatha Christie-style "get all the characters together in the same room for the big explanation" ending.
December 8, 2016
Love Mike Shayne!
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