Hard Case Crime Novels: Murder Is My Business (Series #066) (Paperback)

from Stahl-Ricco

Private eye Mike Shayne is in the town where I was born, El Paso, Texas, to investigate the death of Private James Brown, who was killed in a traffic accident. Or was he? The private was stationed at Fort Bliss - the base I was born on! Pretty good noir read! You've got bodies, body doubles, silv...

from Jonathan_M

Not great but not boring, either. (And it's short.) I had read one of Halliday's Mike Shayne stories, "The Reluctant Client," in The Great American Detective and enjoyed it enough to seek out this novel. On the basis of that story, however, I was expecting something with a grim hard-boiled atmosp...

from WillyMammoth

The Mike Shayne novels are a classic of American literature, a shining example of the detective fiction of the 1940s and 50s. "Murder Is My Business" is one of Shayne's better known adventures. It involves Shayne's trip to El Paso to solve a series of murders connected with the silver mining busi...