''Dividend on Death'' is a 1939
detective novel by the American writer
Brett Halliday. It was the first novel in Halliday's
Michael Shayne
Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fo ...
series of novels, portraying the investigations of a
private detective. It also introduced the character of Phyllis Brighton, who became Shayne's wife. It was followed in 1940 by a second novel ''
The Private Practice of Michael Shayne''.
[Backer p.107] When a
film version of Michael Shayne was made, it borrowed some elements from the first novel but was largely based on ''The Private Practice of Michael Shayne''.
References
Bibliography
* Backer, Ron. ''Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood''. McFarland, 2010.
1939 American novels
American novels adapted into films
Novels by Brett Halliday
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