Shane Stevens (author)
Shane Craig Stevens (October 8, 1941 – 2007) was an American author of crime fiction, crime novels. His parents are John and Caroline (Royale) Stevens. His novels include ''Go Down Dead'' (1966), ''Way Uptown in Another World'' (1971), ''Dead City'' (1973), ''Rat Pack'' (1974), ''By Reason of Insanity'' (1979), and ''The Anvil Chorus'' (1985). Stephen King wrote an appreciation of Stevens in the Afterword of his novel ''The Dark Half'' and paid tribute to him in that book, in which Thad Beaumont writes violent crime novels starring a character named "Alexis Machine," a reference to a character from Stevens' novel ''Dead City''. In Stevens' novel ''By Reason of Insanity'' the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping. The hero of his later novel ''The Anvil Chorus'', a Paris police inspector, is an Alsace, Alsatian Jewish people, Jew apparently related to Alfred Dre ...
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