About the book: 1941 / Brett Holliday (real name Davis Dresser) was born in 1904 in Chicago. He took up literary activity in 1924. He wrote in the genre of the “cool” detective novel. The main character is the red-haired private investigator Mike Shane from Miami, who first appears in the novel “Death Dividends,” published in 1939. In total, this character appears in seventy novels and more than a hundred novellas and short stories. In the final list of US bestsellers for 60 years, starting in 1907, Halliday's novels occupy the first seven places.