Brett Halliday, American engineer, surveyor, and author (died 1977)

Brett Halliday

American novelist (1904–1977)

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,…