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Radio Detective Story Hour 142 The Crooked Wheel

Published: May 14, 2009, 11:31 a.m.

b'The Crooked Wheel ,9/25/48\\nMichael 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 \\u201ctall and rangy"? 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\\u2014and in 1941, was brought to the silver screen in Paramount\\u2019s Michael Shayne, Private Detective, an adaptation of Dividend of Death that starred Lloyd Nolan, and paved the way for six additional B-mysteries to follow. The New Adventures of Michael Shayne\\u2014premiered on July 15, 1948 starring Jeff Chandler.

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