Halliday always claimed Shayne was based on a private eye he met in El Paso on a case, and originally I read somewhere he considered basing Shayne in Dallas before choosing New Orleans and then Miami. I’ve said this before, and probably on this blog, but whenever I read a Shayne novel, my mind’s eye sees Kenneth Tobey in the role. I watched for a few minutes and couldn’t quite manage to see Stevens as Shayne. Produced in 1957, this rare show aired as an episode of “Decision,” and contains a pitch looking for a sponsor.”
Here’s some info about that particular pilot that I found online: “Man on a Raft (9/28/58) Pilot show starring Mark Stevens as Shayne. Mark Stevens as Mike Shayne? I don’t think I knew about that before. I was very surprise to find a thirty-minute TV pilot with Mark Stevens on You Tube. Even though Shayne was far off his New Orleans stomping grounds at the time, this one goes down nice and easy.ġ1 Responses to “Mystery Review: BRETT HALLIDAY – Murder Is My Business.”įor Michael Shayne fans there are several of the hour-long Shayne TV series with Richard Denning available at YouTube. But take another glance at the words “smoothly written.” As a wordsmith, Brett Halliday in the 1940s was one of the best. The plot’s a mixed bag of false trails and two dead bodies, one stripped naked for reasons no man (nor Mike Shayne) can figure out why, plus a gun, a murder weapon, shot three times, although the aforementioned daughter claims she only fired it twice.Įverything ties together at the end, I believe, but as a plot for an otherwise smoothly written murder mystery, it’s all a bit too much. It also involves a gent that Shayne had run into before, not in a friendly fashion, who is now running for mayor, and a broken love affair involving that same gentleman’s daughter. There’s also a silver mine involved, and competing claims of whether a vein has run out of not. It’s a complicated affair, involving possible enemy spying and/or the luring of American soldiers based in the area of El Paso, Texas, across the border into Mexico in order to pump them for secrets they may have picked up in passing.
Reprinted many times thereafter, including Hard Case Crime, paperback, 2010.Ī post-war adventure for PI Michael Shayne, or if not, it takes very close to the end of the hostilities. Dell #184, paperback, mapback edition, no date stated.
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