Brett Halliday

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Brett Halliday , actually Davis Dresser , (born July 31, 1904 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 4, 1977 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American writer .

Life

Halliday spent most of his childhood in western Texas . There he was so badly injured on a barbed wire that he lost his left eye. He wore an eye patch on the left side of his life. At 14, he ran away from home in 1918 and entered Fort Bliss ( El Paso a cavalry regiment in). As a member of the United States Border Patrol , he controlled the border on the Rio Grande for a year .

Halliday then returned home and graduated from high school with a respectable degree. Soon after, he married Kathleen Rollins. This marriage was soon divorced. Halliday took part in World War II and returned to his homeland in 1945. On March 26, 1945 he founded the Association Mystery Writers of America (MWA) in New York together with Anthony Boucher , Clayton Rawson and Lawrence Treat .

In 1946 Halliday married the writer Helen McCloy and had a daughter with her. This marriage was divorced in 1961 and in the same year he married the third marriage to the writer Mary Savage ; with her he had a son.

“Brett Halliday” was his most important and well-known pseudonym . Depending on the genre , he also wrote under the names "Matthew Blood", "Kathryn Culver", "Don Davis", "Hal Debrett", "Anthony Scott", "Peter Field" and "Anderson Wayne".

Awards

Works

  • Have a good rest in Florida. Detective novel ("Murder by Proxy"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
  • Friendly, but dead. Detective novel ("Too friendly, too dead"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • A hot thing. Detective novel ("Killers from the Keys"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
  • Hot goods from Haifa. Detective novel ("At the point A-38"). Goldmann, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-442-04441-3 .
  • Every Friday. Detective novel ("The corpse that never was"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • Customers are not stabbed. Detective novel ("Never kill a client"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • Lady dynamite. Detective novel ("Fit to kill"). Goldmann, Munich 1974.
  • The hole in the pocket. Detective novel ("Framed in blood"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
  • With marked cards. Detective novel ("Weep for a Blonde"). Goldmann, Munich 1973.
  • With a smoking revolver. Detective novel ("Shoot to kill"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • The murderous virgin. Detective novel ("The hiomicidal virgin"). Goldmann, Munich 1968.
  • Murder in a hurry. Detective novel ("Murder in haste"). Goldmann, Munich 1966.
  • The night with Nora. Detective novel ("One night with Nora"). Goldmann, Munich 1971.
  • Schnapps, hash and kitties. Detective novel ("Lady be bad"). Goldmann, Munich 1965.
  • Death doesn't know half-time Detective novel ("Fourth down to death"). Goldmann, Munich 1967.
  • The deadly recipe. Detective novel ("Pay off in blood"). Goldmann, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-442-25934-7 .
  • The lost memory. Detective novel ("Call for Michael Shayne"). Goldmann, Munich 1967.

literature

  • Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 186.

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personal data
SURNAME Halliday, Brett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dresser, Davis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1977
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)