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Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977) 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.
Howard Haycraft, author of the seminal Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, wrote during 1941 that H.M. or "The Old Man" was "the present writer's admitted favorite among contemporary fictional sleuths". During 1938 the British mystery writer R. Philmore wrote in an article called "Inquest on Detective Stories" that ...
Kinn Hamilton McIntosh [1] MBE (20 June 1930 - 21 December 2024 [2]), known professionally as Catherine Aird, is an English novelist.She is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories.
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He was convicted of second-degree murder in April 2004 and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison — only to have the conviction overturned on Dec. 31, 2009.
Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories, is a mystery short story collection written by John Dickson Carr and first published in the US by Lawrence E. Spivak (The American Mercury) in 1947. Most of the stories feature his series detective Gideon Fell .
The Crown Crime Companion : The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time Edited with Mickey Friedman. (1995) Murder For Love (1996) The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time (1998) Murder For Revenge (1998) Murder and Obsession (1999) Best American Mystery Stories of the Century Edited with Tony Hillerman. (2000) Murderer's Row (2001) Murder On the Ropes ...
Murder with Mirrors is a 1985 British-American television film starring Helen Hayes (in her final film role) and Bette Davis. It is based on Agatha Christie's novel They Do It with Mirrors, using the novel's American title. The novel has been dramatized on two separated series, Miss Marple and Agatha Christie's Marple. They used the novel's ...