Gilpin Historical Society
By David Forsyth, PhD
On November 24, 1939, the Weekly Register-Call reported that Mr. and Mrs. Davis Dresser had visited Central City to do some research in the files of the newspaper. Only a die-hard fan would have known that Davis Dresser was in fact one of the best-known mystery writers of his time. He wrote under several pseudonyms, including Asa Baker, Peter Shelley, Anderson Wayne, Matthew Blood, and Kathryn Culver. His most famous pseudonym, though, was Brett Halliday, the name under which he wrote the Michael Shayne mysteries.
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