![]() ![]() Eventually, he went to Tri-State College of Engineering, where he received a certificate in civil engineering. In search of adventure, Dresser traveled throughout the Southwest working at various odd jobs, including that of muleskinner, farm hand, deckhand on a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico, laborer in the California oilfields, etc. After his service, he returned to Texas to finish high school. 5th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by a year of Border Patrol duty on the Rio Grande. Here he lost an eye to barbed wire as a boy, and thus had to wear an eye patch for the rest of his life.Īt the age of 14, he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. ![]() Dresser also wrote westerns, non-series mysteries, and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.ĭresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but mostly grew up in West Texas. ![]() Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned others to continue. ![]() Brett Halliday, Asa Baker, Mathew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Anderson Wayneīrett Halliday (J– February 4, 1977) is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. ![]()
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