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
- GoodReads: 264244
- ISNI: 0000000118454076
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 105355372
- IMDb: nm0356539
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV107556
- VIAF: 103213369
- Wikidata: Q910800
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q910800
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- Brett Halliday (pseud.)
- Asa Baker
- Matthew Blood
- Kathryn Culver
- Hal Debrett
- Peter Field
- Anthony Scott
- Eliot Storm
- Davis Dresser (real name)