Shane Craig Stevens (October 8, 1941 – 2007) was an American author of crime novels. His parents are John and Caroline (Royale) Stevens. His novels include ''Go Down Dead'' (1966), ''Way Uptown in Another World'' (1971), ''Dead City'' (1973), ''Rat Pack'' (1974), ''By Reason of Insanity'' (1979), and ''The Anvil Chorus'' (1985).

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high s ...

wrote an appreciation of Stevens in the Afterword of his novel '' The Dark Half'' and paid tribute to him in that book, in which Thad Beaumont writes violent crime novels starring a character named "Alexis Machine," a reference to a character from Stevens' novel ''Dead City''. In Stevens' novel ''By Reason of Insanity'' the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping. The hero of his later novel ''The Anvil Chorus'', a Paris police inspector, is an Alsatian Jew apparently related to

Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus ( , also , ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. ...

. Stevens also wrote two crime novels under the pseudonym J.W. Rider: ''Jersey Tomatoes'' (Arbor 1986) and ''Hot Tickets'' (Arbor 1987). The protagonist is Ryder Malone in both novels. The setting is New Jersey.

Allen J. Hubin Allen J. Hubin (born March 5, 1936, in Crosby, Minnesota) is an American historian of crime fiction, a literary critic and bibliographer of crime fiction. Biography Hubin studied at Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Wheaton College and the Univ ...

: ''Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000'', 2010 revised edition (Locus Press)) Malone is an extremely tough private detective who specializes in cases of murder.

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