Brett Halliday might not have had the recognition or the critical cachet of Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler, but he was a very successful and popular mystery author for over 30 years, with an international readership and a string of movie and television adaptations that ran from the '30s to the '60s. Halliday was the pseudonym of Davis Dresser, a Chicago-born, Texas-raised author whose early...
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