Michael Shayne is a
fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by
writer Brett Halliday. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring
Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, four films from the low-budget Producers Releasing Corporation with Hugh Beaumont, a radio series under a variety of titles between 1944 and 1953, and later in 1960–1961 in a 32-episode
NBC television series starring
Richard Denning in the title role.