Michael Shayne "Pursuit Of Death" (9-18-48) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod
b'Michael Shayne was a fictional sleuth created by Brett Halliday (a pen name for author Davis Dresser) who was first initiated into the fraternity for detectives in the 1939 novel "Dividend of Death". Dresser based the character on a \\xe2tall and rangy\\xe2 brawler who once saved his life during a braw in a Mexican cantina. The Shayne character would go on to appear in 69 novels, plus a long-running mystery magazine\\xe2and in 1941, was brought to the silver screen in Paramount\\xe2s Michael Shayne, Private Detective, an adaptation of Dividend of Death\\xa0 that starred Lloyd Nolan, and paved the way for six additional B-mysteries to follow. The New Adventures of Michael Shayne\\xe2premiered on July 15, 1948 starring Jeff Chandler.
