Mike Haller
Created by Max Byrd
San Francisco gumshoe MIKE HALLER appeared in three very fine PBO's in the early eighties, won a Shamus, garnered a nomination for another, and vanished. Too bad. The three books make an impressive triology, very much ij the Chandler/Macdonld vien, but infused with their own sly wit and a more contemporary edge. And Mike even has a girlfriend, the smart and lovely Dinah Farrell, who works as a staff psychiatrist at Washington General hospital, training medical students and seeing patients.
In addition to the PI books he wrote in the 80's--California Thriller (1981) the first, was the one that won a Shamus for Best Paperback PI Novel in 1982, and Finders Weepers was nominated two years later--author Byrd has written thrillers, and is now writing historical fiction, Jefferson being a recent book. He doesn't depend on his writing for his livlehood, so he generally writes what and when he wants. Unfortunately, it looks like he doesn't want to write anymore Mike Haller books, which is indeed a loss.
RIYL: John Marshall Tanner, Ross MacDonald, Harry Stoner,
early Spenser.
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Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
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