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Dividend on Death is a 1939 detective novel by the American writer Brett Halliday. It was the first novel in Halliday's Michael Shayne series of novels, portraying the investigations of a private detective. It also introduced the character of Phyllis Brighton, who became Shayne's wife.
Dividend on Death is the first Mike Shayne detective novel (I believe there were some short stories before this book). Its central mystery involves an elderly man on the brink of death, his wife (who’s murdered), and her daughter by a previous marriage who may or may not have murdered her.
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Dividend on Death (1939) The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940) The Uncomplaining Corpses (1940) Tickets for Death (1941) Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941) The Corpse Came Calling (1942) Murder Wears a Mummer's Mask (1943; AKA In a Deadly Vein)
Accounting. A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, it is able to pay a portion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. Any amount not distributed is taken to be re-invested in the business (called retained earnings ).
Mike Shayne Series. 72 primary works • 72 total works. Davis Dresser [1904-1977] created the pseudonym Brett Halliday and the series character Michael Shayne. After 1958, beginning with Fit to Kill, Brett Halliday was a house name used by several authors. Most were written by Robert Terrall, with some written by Ryerson Johnson and Dennis Lynds.
Dividend on Death is a 1939 novel by Brett Halliday, the pen name of Davis Dresser. It was the first novel in a series about tough-guy Miami private detective Michael Shayne, a series that would run for 37 years and some 70 pulp novels.
18 de jan. de 2021 · Dividend on Death is primarily interesting as a curiosity from its age and as the first Mike Shayne novel. The psychological, medical aspects of the story are influenced from the theories of the late 1930s, and are nice to see played out here.
