Too Friendly, Too Dead

by Brett Halliday

1963Michael Shayne (Fictitious character)Detective and mystery storiesFictionFiction, mystery & detective, general

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Michael Shayne (Fictitious character)Detective and mystery storiesFictionFiction, mystery & detective, general

First published 1963

About the author

Brett Halliday

1904-07-31 – 1977-02-04

Brett Halliday is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned others to continue. Dresser also wrote westerns, non-series mysteries, and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.

Author

Brett Halliday

First published

1963

Pages

170

Read time

≈ 4h

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Language

English

Publisher

Dell

ISBN

9784140089491

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