Pernell Hall, Author, Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-570-0
The low-rent tribulations of N.Y.C. PI Stanley Hastings (Actor, Blackmail, Movie, etc.) once fueled a bunch of enjoyable light crime yarns as Stanley cased out ill-lit stairways and injured clients for his shark-like, ambulance-chasing litigator...
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-60248-2
Feisty Cora Felton, who fronts as the Puzzle Lady for niece Sherry Carter, is at her cantankerous, obfuscating, trouble-stirring best in Hall’s delightful 14th Bakerhaven, Conn., romp (after 2012’s $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles). When the body...
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Parnell Hall, Author Onyx Books $4.5 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-40249-3
This fifth adventure of New York private eye Stanley Hastings finds the would-be action-writer set up as prime suspect for the murder of a woman he was hired to trail. According to PW , ``The ending is a bit pallid and Stanley talks too much, but he'
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Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-89296-520-5
Stanley Hastings is a frenzied PI whose six comic misadventures while investigating accident cases for a Manhattan law firm have been chronicled in Shot , Detective et al. Having interviewed people with broken legs and photographed holes in the...
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Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-89296-569-4
Following last year's Blackmail, Stanley Hastings's 10th adventure is strictly for fans of the first nine; others will find the actor/PI all too convincing when he complains about just how ``dull and painful'' movie-making can be. Stanley is elated...
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Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-623-3
New York City PI Stanley Hastings could be forgiven for feeling like one of Kafka's tortured characters in this intricate and fiendishly funny case, his 12th, after last year's Trial. Cranston Pritchert hires Hastings to find information about a...
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Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $22.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-624-0
No bad luck for Hall as he unreels an amusing tongue-in-cheek 13th adventure for PI Stanley Hastings (after Scam, 1997). When Maxine Winnington, wife of bestselling thriller author Kenneth Winnington, hires Stanley to find out who's making...
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Parnell Hall, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80099-9
The second puzzle for Cora Felton (following A Clue for the Puzzle Lady) is even better than her clever debut. Although nationally syndicated columnist Cora is known as the ""Puzzle Lady"" to her Bakerhaven, Conn., neighbors, it's actually her...
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Parnell Hall, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80242-9
Just in time for Christmas comes Parnell Hall's latest puzzle mystery, A Puzzle in a Pear Tree. In this round, series heroine Cora Felton and her indomitable niece, Sherry Carter, must track down a killer who's been planting clues in acrostics...
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Parnell Hall, Author Bantam Books $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-80244-3
A Puzzle Lady Mystery by Parnell Hall, who's been nominated for Edgar, Shamus and Lefty awards. .
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-60247-5
In Hall’s well-plotted if padded 13th mystery featuring PI and puzzle lady Cora Felton (after 2011’s The KenKen Killings), lawyer Becky Baldwin persuades Cora to deliver a blackmail payment, in the amount stated in the book’s title, on behalf of an...
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Parnell Hall. Brash, $17.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-7343480-6-4
Set in New York City, this pallid serial killer thriller from Edgar finalist Hall (the Stanley Hastings series) focuses on a pair of thugs who call themselves George and Lennie after the characters in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. George and...
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Parnell Hall. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (282p) ISBN 978-1-60598-402-5
Despite 17 previous outings, Stanley Hastings still hasn’t learned much, as shown by Hall’s enjoyable 18th caper to feature the bumbling New York PI (after 2010’s Caper). Hired to tail suspected adulterer Philip Marston by his wife, Julie, Hastings...
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-02715-3
Hall’s delightful 15th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2013’s Arsenic and Old Puzzles) takes Bakerhaven, Conn., puzzle lady Cora Felton and her lawyer chum, Becky Baldwin, to the Big Apple for a meeting with a mysterious potential client. It’s all...
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Parnell Hall. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60598-637-1
Edgar-finalist Hall’s rollicking 19th Stanley Hastings mystery (after 2013’s Stakeout) takes the hapless New York City PI and his wife, Alice, to Zambia and Zimbabwe on safari. Accompanying them are such diverse characters as a nubile young woman...
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-02717-7
In Hall’s whimsical 16th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2014’s NYPD Puzzle), amateur sleuth Cora agrees to help a local attorney in Bakerhaven, Conn., by tailing an insurance salesman and finding out if he’s cheating on his wife. Happily for married...
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Parnell Hall. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60598-883-2
In Edgar-finalist Hall’s frenetic 20th mystery featuring New York City PI Stanley Hastings (after 2014’s Safari), Stanley’s boss, leading negligence attorney Richard Rosenberg, decides to defend himself after being charged with his girlfriend’s...
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-06123-2
Fans of clever wordplay will enjoy Hall’s 17th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2015’s Puzzled Indemnity) starring Cora Felton, a feisty, lusty, oft-married but for the moment single lady, who fronts for her niece’s syndicated puzzle column—a secret known
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-06124-9
In Hall’s diverting 18th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2016’s Presumed Puzzled), Cora Felton, who secretly writes a puzzle column for her niece, is thrilled to learn that the New York Yankees’ newest pitching sensation, Matt Greystone, has chosen her...
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Parnell Hall. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-15520-7
Clever banter elevates Edgar–finalist Hall’s 19th mystery featuring Bakerhaven, Conn., puzzle lady Cora Felton (after 2017’s A Puzzle to Be Named Later). When 16-year-old Peggy Dawson approaches Cora with a crossword puzzle that the girl thinks is...
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Parnell Hall, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0874-1
Ingenious plotting and a hefty dose of humor offset an underlying silliness in Edgar and Shamus–nominee Hall's 14th novel featuring his New York City PI, Stanley Hastings (Detective; Murder; Blackmail; etc.). Stanley and his henpecking...
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Parnell Hall, Author . Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-312-37399-3
Near the start of Hall’s fast-paced 10th Puzzle Lady mystery (after 2008’s The Sudoku Puzzle Murders
), Dale Harper, the Bakerhaven, Conn., police chief, asks crossword columnist Cora Felton to solve a crossword puzzle found at the death
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Parnell Hall, Author . Bantam $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-80102-6
In this third book of a well-received series (Last Puzzle and Testament, etc.), we have puzzles within puzzles in every sense of the word. Cora Felton, hailed as the "Puzzle Lady" for her prowess in constructing newspaper crossword puzzles,...
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Parnell Hall, Author . Carroll & Graf/Penzler $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1127-7
In Hall's 15th outing to feature offbeat New York PI Stanley Hastings (after 2001's Cozy), a new client, Joe Balfour, admits he once served time for manslaughter after killing a man in a barroom brawl. Now, 25 years later, blackmailer Philip
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Parnell Hall, Author . Bantam $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80241-2
Hall's light touch continues to entertain, although Cora Felton's "secret," which wasn't well-hidden in her debut in A Clue for the Puzzle Lady
(1999), is so worn now as to be completely transparent in this fifth adventure. Cora
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Parnell Hall, Author . Bantam $24 (303p) ISBN 978-0-553-80418-8
Parnell's lighthearted eighth installment in her cruciverbalist series (after 2005's Stalking the Puzzle Lady
) finds feisty, grandmotherly Cora Felton charged with plagiarism and
murder—accusations she'll have to do some fast...
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Parnell Hall, Author . Pegasus $24 (263p) ISBN 978-1-933648-53-8
Stanley Hastings, the hapless PI who’s recently taken somewhat of a backseat to Hall’s Cora Felton “puzzle lady” series (You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled
, etc.), reappears for his 16th case, the first since 2003’s...
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Parnell Hall, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-37090-9
When a man with half his head sliced off is found behind the abandoned Tastee Freez in Bakerhaven, Conn., near the start of Hall’s fast-paced ninth puzzle lady mystery (after 2006’s You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled
), the chief clue...
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (262p) ISBN 978-1-55611-230-0
Hall's ( Client ) latest addition to the Stanley Hastings series featuring the somewhat inconsequential private detective who specializes in negligence cases, finds Hastings reluctantly serving as a juror in a numbingly boring trial. Fellow juror...
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Parnell Hall, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-61218-4
A foreign rival challenges Cora Felton in Hall's amusing 11th mystery to feature the Puzzle Lady of Bakerhaven, Conn. (after 2009's Dead Man's Puzzle
). Minami, the Sudoku Lady, arrives from Japan dressed in traditional garb, along...
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Parnell Hall, Author Pegasus (Norton, dist.) 25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60598-104-8
Stanley Hastings, an endearingly inept New York City PI whose usual fare is interviewing prospective slip-and-fall clients for a negligence lawyer, gets involved in a multiple-murder case in his breezy 17th outing (after 2007’s Hitman) from Edgar-fin
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55611-058-0
Hall made his notable debut with Detective. His hero, timid New York City private eye Stanley Hastings, recounts his new exploits here. By turns hair-raising and hilarious, the story concerns the troubles of Pamela Berringer, who lives in the same...
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Parnell Hall, Author Onyx Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-40217-2
In Hall's fourth Stanley Hastings novel the hero stumbles yet again into the arms of crime--this time, into a series of strangulations of potential clients for detective Hastings's ambulance-chasing employers. ``Though the plot is somewhat garbled,...
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-55611-169-3
In his fifth adventure ( Detective ; Murder ; etc.) New York private eye Stanley Hastings is still working for a sleazy lawyer, who generally sends him out to take depositions from ``victims'' in accident cases. Then Stanley finally gets a real...
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Parnell Hall, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-89296-521-2
The eight previous titles in Hall's entertaining series about the low-rent sleuthing shenanigans of New York actor/PI Stanley Hastings have steadily broadened Hall's readership. The latest, while no disappointment, isn't likely to propel Hall into...
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-55611-239-3
Purists may balk at this mystery's all-encompassing red herring, but will admit that it is convincing nonetheless. Stanley Hastings--Hall's hero in Detective and five other novels--supports a slack writing career by working as a private eye in New...
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (249p) ISBN 978-1-55611-096-2
Stanley Hastings is just a guy who can't say ``no.'' When Sgt. William MacAuliff of the NYPD asks a favor, Stanley's obliging nature catapults him into a web of intrigue that is pure entertainment for the reader. In Hall's third novel (after Murder )
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55611-026-9
When Martin Albrect stumbles into his detective agency, babbling that he's about to be murdered, Stanley Hastings is incredulousuntil he reads the next day that Albrect has been brutally shot. Albrect has left behind a series of clues, and Hastings...
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Parnell Hall, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (285p) ISBN 978-1-55611-125-9
In Hall's fourth Stanley Hastings novel ( Detective ; Murder ; Favor ) the hero stumbles yet again into the arms of crime--this time, a series of strangulations of potential clients for detective Hastings's ambulance-chasing employers, the lawyers...
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Parnell Hall, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-553-80096-8
Hall, best known for his Edgar-nominated Stanley Hastings series, begins a new series with a heroine who provides an interesting variation on the older woman sleuth. Imagine Miss Marple as a promiscuous lush, and you have Cora Felton, known to...
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Parnell Hall, Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-61219-1
At the start of Hall's tantalizing 12th mystery featuring puzzle lady Cora Felton (after 2010's The Puzzle Lady vs. the Suduko Lady), Cora can't resist cashing a check for $10,000, a supposed legacy from the late Chester T. Markowitz, who may have...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-18526-7
Bestseller Woods (Dishonorable Intentions) teams with Edgar-finalist Hall (A Fool for a Client) on this testosterone-fueled thriller, which features recurring character Teddy Fay, an ex-CIA agent and master of disguise, who first appeared as a...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1723-2
New York lawyer Herbie Fisher, the hard-luck hero of this cleverly plotted comic thriller from Edgar-winner Woods and Hall (Smooth Operator), gets called in at the last minute to defend David Ross, a college kid accused of selling drugs at a party...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1859-8
Blackmail drives bestseller Woods and Edgar-finalist Hall’s exciting second novel starring former CIA agent Teddy Fay (after 2016’s Smooth Operator). Teddy is working as a stunt man on an action film for Centurion Studios in Hollywood when the...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1916-8
At the start of bestseller Woods and Edgar finalist Hall’s breezy third Teddy Faye novel (after 2018’s The Money Shot), Lance Cabot, the head of the CIA, orders the ex-CIA operative, who knows disobeying Lance isn’t a good idea, to leave his...
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Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-08325-3
Set in Hollywood, bestseller Woods and Edgar finalist Hall’s brisk fourth Teddy Fay novel (after 2019’s Skin Game) finds former CIA operative Teddy alternating between two identities. A few minutes applying makeup and putting on a wig transforms...
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Parnell Hall. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64313-059-0
At the start of Hall’s enjoyable 20th mystery featuring Bakerhaven, Conn., crossword puzzle creator Cora Felton (after 2018’s The Purloined Puzzle), Cora is less than thrilled to learn that her ex-husband, Melvin Crabtree, has sold his tell-all...
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