Well, this is Mike Shayne month. A list of all the Mike
Shayne books is up on the web site, so have a look and read
any you've got sitting around. I'm sure we all have a few,
probably those Dell paperbacks with cocky-looking Mike in a
circle at the top. I've had to do a lot of reading on
something else, so haven't done any, but will start one in
day or two. Has anyone else been in the spirit of the month?
(Mike Shayne, not Christmas.) Any comments? There's no
particular title assigned, just read what you feel like and
we'll probably end up covering a lot of ground.
Mr. Reasoner on the list actually *was* Brett Halliday for a
while. Perhaps you could tell us about how you came to write
for the Mike Shayne Mystery magazine, and what it was like?
Are there any other Brett Hallidays on the list? In late
September, Mr. Reasoner said:
| Lynds wrote nearly all of the Mike Shayne stories in the
magazine from
| 1963-70. I forget what his total was, but it was more than
anyone else
| who wrote magazine Shaynes. I wrote 38 of them between '78
and '82. A
| lot of people wrote Shayne stories for the magazine.
Besides Lynds, the
| ones I remember off the top of my head: Sam Merwin Jr.,
Robert Turner,
| Robert Arthur, Richard Deming, Michael Avallone, Peter
Germano, Edward
| Y. Breese, Bill Pronzini & Jeff Wallman, Hal Charles,
Jerry Jacobson,
| and Michael Taylor.
Bill
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