Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: detective
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0759219028
ISBN-13: 9780759219021

Poor Stanley Hastings! All his detective pursuits end in failure. So when Martin Albrecht comes to him with a case for a real detective, Stanley turns him away. Unfortunately, Stanley’s accursed path leads to his finding Albrecht dead. Now that he’s been challenged and has to take the case; maybe Stanley will finally prove that he’s a real detective. To solve this case Stanley must descend into the modern-day inferno of drugs and mob operations. Will he come out of it alive.?

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Mysterious Pr
Keywords: actor
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 1993-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0892965207
ISBN-13: 9780892965205

New York private investigator Stanley Hastings chases his dream of becoming an actor, but when he is accused of a murder backstage, he must use all of his sleuthing talents to track a killer. Reprint. PW. NYT.

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: lady, puzzle, mysteries, stalking
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0553587633
ISBN-13: 9780553587630

Cora Felton may look like everyone’s favorite grandmother. But the white-haired, bespectacled Puzzle Lady swears, smokes, gambles, and is even dodgy on the subject of how many husbands she’s had. So it strikes her long-suffering niece Sherry Carter as amusing when Cora announces, “I’m tired of living a lie!”The inspiration for this sudden burst of honesty is a promotion by Granville Grains featuring the Puzzle Lady on a bus tour of televised personal appearances. Cora can’t think of anything she’d like to do less–except maybe quit smoking–than travel the supermarkets of I-95

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Mysterious Pr
Keywords: trial
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1996-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0892965703
ISBN-13: 9780892965700

Actor-turned-sleuth Stanley Hastings finds himself ringside at a notorious murder trial when he is hired to investigate the alibi of accused wife slayer Anson Carbinder, but the case soon becomes complicated by another murder. By the author of Movie.

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: manslaughter
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-01-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0786711272
ISBN-13: 9780786711277

Having survived a murderously uncomfortable New England holiday in the much-praised Cozy, private eye Stanley Hastings returns to more familiar New York urban turf with his twisted logic and droll style effectually intact. With Joe Balfour—a client who did time 25 years ago for killing a man in a barroom brawl—Stanley embarks on an ingeniously plotted and frequently hilarious excursion that will confront him continually with embarrassments: like the arrest of his client for the murder of a notorious blackmailer who’s been found in his Upper East Side apartment with a carving knife in his

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: murder
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0759215480
ISBN-13: 9780759215481

Stanley Hastings, the New York private detective, is back in the swing of things. But playing it safe and toning down his investigations doesn’t work for him because he is a magnet for trouble. Stanley needs to help an apparently innocent housewife/call girl get out of a prostitution ring and retrieve a compromising video of her held by her pimp. Unfortunately, Stanley walks into the pimp’s apartment while a slaughter is in progress. To make matters worse, Stanley himself is the number-one suspect.

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Donald I. Fine Inc.
Keywords: client
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1990-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 155611169X
ISBN-13: 9781556111693

"What’s wrong with me?" is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings’s mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has absolutely no interest in being a P.I., but hey, he needs to pay the bills. The novice P.I.’s first victim . um . client is Marvin Nickleson, an ex-husband on the rampage. Stanley’s first job seems easy-just get a picture of Nickleson’s ex-wife with another man-until . well . he finds her DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. The murder weapon? In Stanley’s car, of course. Stanley’s second case is to save his own hide. What will this aspiring-wri