Shane Stevens

:"For the footballer, See Shane Stevens (footballer)."Shane Stevens (born October 8, 1941) is an American author of crime novels. He was born in New York, New York to 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 has claimed to being a huge fan, and gave tribute to him in his book "The Dark Half", which features violent crime novels starring a character named 'Alexis Machine,' a reference to a character of the same name from the novel "Dead City."In his novel, "By Reason of Insanity", his main caracter, "Thomas Bishop" believes he is the son of the infamous "Caryl Chessman" who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping.