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.
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- OLID: OL2180760A
- ISNI: 0000000118454076
- VIAF: 103213369
- Wikidata: Q910800
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q910800
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- Halliday, Brett pseud.
- Asa Baker
- Matthew Blood
- Kathryn Culver
- Hal Debrett
- Peter Field
- Anthony Scott
- Eliot Storm
- Davis Dresser
- brett halliday
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