Book: ‘Date with a Dead Man’ by Brett Halliday
Date with a Dead Man by Brett Halliday
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
“Brett Halliday” was really David Dresser. Dresser wrote teh series from 1938 to 1959. This is the first book after Dresser written by a ghost writer and it shows.
The writing is good and the mystery is better. The plotting is OK with some sloppy parts here and there. The characters are also OK. Mostly distinct.
But this is all a far cry from Dresser’s work. The writers botches the two decades of books continuity with un-Mike Shayne moves. There are also many blue areas in the book placing the book in the pulpier side of pulp. Dresser never went as far as the ghost writer did with blue material.
But, I’ll judge the book as a single entity.
Bottom line: I recommend this book. 6 out of 10.
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