Mike Shayne series by Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 - February 4, 1977), primary pen name of Davis Dresser, was an American mystery writer, best known for the long-lived series of Mike Shayne novels he wrote, and later commissioned others to write. Dresser wrote non-series mysteries, westerns and romances under the names Asa Baker, Matthew Blood, Kathryn Culver, Don Davis, Hal Debrett, Anthony Scott, Peter Field, and Anderson Wayne.

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GENRE: detective, murder, crime, hardboiled, mystery, suspense, private eye
Mike Shayne, is a red-headed hard-boiled private detective, in Miami, Florida.

The books in suggested reading order:

Dividend on Death
The Private Practice of Michael Shayne
The Uncomplaining Corpses
Tickets for Death
Bodies Are Where You Find Them
The Corpse Came Calling
In a Deadly Vein
Heads You Lose
Michael Shayne's Long Chance
Murder and the Married Virgin
Murder Is My Business
Marked for Murder
Blood on Biscayne Bay
Counterfeit Wife
Blood on the Stars
Michael Shayne's Triple Mystery
A Taste for Violence
Call for Michael Shayne
This Is It, Michael Shayne
Framed in Blood
When Dorinda Dances
What Really Happened
One Night with Nora
She Woke to Darkness
Death Has Three Lives
Stranger in Town
The Blonde Cried Murder
Weep for a Blonde
Shoot the Works
Murder and the Wanton Bride
Fit to Kill
Date with a Dead Man
Target: Mike Shayne
Die Like a Dog
Murder Takes No Holiday
Dolls Are Deadly
The Homicidal Virgin
Killers from the Keys
Murder in Haste
The Careless Corpse
Pay-Off in Blood
Murder by Proxy
Never Kill a Client
Too Friendly, Too Dead
The Corpse That Never Was
The Body Came Back
A Redhead for Mike Shayne
Shoot to Kill
Michael Shaynes' 50th Case
The Violent World of Michael Shayne
Nice Fillies Finish Last
Murder Spins the Wheel
Armed... Dangerous...
Mermaid on the Rocks
Guilty as Hell
So Lush, So Deadly
Violence Is Golden
Lady, Be Bad
Six Seconds to Kill
Fourth Down to Death
Count Backwards to Zero
I Come to Kill You
Caught Dead
Kill All the Young Girls
Blue Murder
Last Seen Hitchhiking
At the Point of a .38
Million Dollar Handle
Win Some, Lose Some
Dead Man's Diary & A Taste for Cognac
Mum's the Word for Murder
The Postman Brought Murder