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One of the most popular private detectives ever, red-haired Miami P.I. MICHAEL SHAYNE has had a long, successful, multi-media career. Shayne was created and first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dividend on Death, by Davis Dresser, published under the pseudonym Brett Halliday. Dresser wrote fifty Shayne novels (with a little help from ghostwriters such as Ryerson Johnson) and twenty-seven more were written by Robert Terrall and published as paperback originals by Dell, still under the pseudonym Brett Halliday. So that's 77 novels, over 300 short stories, a dozen films, radio and television shows and even a few comic book appearances.

The 1940 film Michael Shayne - Private Detective was the first in a series of 7 films starring Lloyd Nolan as Shayne. The series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942 and later picked up by PRC in 1945.

These films were well done and Nolan played the character well in his easy gong manner.. Some films were based on novels while others were based on different stories. All containing the characters created by Brett Halliday in his novels.

This set contains the following films of the series:

Disc 1: Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940)

77 minutes Directed by Eugene Forde

Based on by The Private Practice of Michael Shatne by Brett Halliday

Disc 2: Sleeper's West (1941)

74 minutes Directed by Eugene Forde

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday and Sleeper's East by Frederick Nebel

Disc 3: Dressed to KIll (1941)

74 minutes Directed by Eugene Forde

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday and Death Takes No Bows by Richard Burke

Disc 4: Blue, White and Perfect (1941)

74 minutes Directed by Herbert I. Leeds

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday and an old pulp novel by Borden Chase

Disc 5: The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)

65 minutes Directed by Herbert I. Leeds

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday and No Coffin for the Corpse by Clayton Rawson

Disc 6: Just Off Broadway (1942)

65 minutes Directed by Herbert I. Leeds

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday

Disc 7: Time to KIll (1942)

61 minutes Directed by Herbert I. Leeds

Based on characters created by Brett Halliday and The High Window by Raymond Chandler