Most Popular Books by Parnell Hall

In this new Stanley Hastings mystery novel, the put-upon New York private investigator is vacationing at the Blue Frog Ponds Inn. Someone has started bumping off the guests, and the first murder happens right under his nose, so he finds himself a key witness if not a prime suspect. He has only his wits, his wife and a cat-- all of which he''ll need if he is to catch a killer before the culprit strikes very close to home.

When Manhattan private eye and part-time actor Stanley Hastings gets an offer to have his screenplay produced, he thinks he''s finally hit it big. But when corpses keep turning up, he sees he will have to re-write the ending, to catch the killer.

The new Stanley Hastings novel featuring the unlikeliest private eye in New York City.

Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known universe--enters the big league. When asked to investigate Sergeant MacAullif''s son-in-law, Stanley gets himself into trouble yet again. Doing favors can create a lot of problems. When Stanley takes on the case, he ends up doing one more favor than he expected: he unwittingly takes the blame for the questionable dealings of MacAullif''s son-in-law. Now he must find a way out of this mess. Maybe he''ll learn to be more cautious next time he''s asked to do a favor.

Working for an ambitious defense attorney, Hastings has a ringside seat at a juicy murder case plus $200 a day to investigate the accused''s ironclad alibi. But the more Stanley investigates the alibi, the more it crumbles around him.

The novel that takes Stanley Hastings, the ever-loquacious New York private detective, on safari in Zambia . . . What could possibly go wrong?

While tracking the source of threatening phone calls to bestselling author Kenneth P. Winnington''s wife, P.I. Stanley Hastings becomes the prime murder suspect when those threats turn deadly.

Agreeing to help a seemingly innocent girl who is threatened by someone claiming to have erotic photographs of her, private detective Stanley Hastings acquires the photos only to learn that the claims--and the girl''s identity--are bogus. Reprint.

A Stanley Hastings mystery.

The new novel in the ever-popular mystery series finds the Puzzle Lady on the set of a movie about her own life—and when the first dead body shows up on set, it comes with a crossword puzzle. It’s murder on the movie set! It’s no surprise when Cora Felton’s ex-husband’s sensational tell-all memoir, Confessions of a Trophy Husband: My Life with the Puzzle Lady, is optioned for the movies, but it certainly raises eyebrows when the Puzzle Lady herself signed on as an associate producer. Cora explains gamely that she hoped to have some control over the project. The truth is that she needs the money. Now Cora is filming her life story on location in New York City, and things couldn’t be worse. She doesn’t like the script, she doesn’t like the director, and she absolutely hates the actress who is playing her in the movie. It’s almost a relief when the first dead body shows up on the set. If only it didn’t come with a crossword puzzle . . .

Stanley Hastings is called to Connecticut as a last-minute replacement for an actor in a play, and when the stage manager is mysteriously murdered, Stanley becomes the prime suspect

A Stanley Hastings novel of suspense, by the author of F̀avor'' and D̀etective''.

When Stanley Hastings, a chivalrous gentleman but mediocre detective, agrees to help prostitute Pamela Berringer free herself from her pimp, Stanley winds up as the number one suspect in a murder investigation

In the heat of a mysterious murder investigation, Stanley Hastings has his long-awaited chance to prove himself as a real detective, but what price will he have to pay?

Chief Harper comes to Cora Felton, asking her to solve a crossword puzzle found on the body of old man Overmeyer. Small problem. Cora''s niece, Sherry, who is off on her honeymoon, actually writes Cora''s crossword puzzle column for her. So Cora pokes into Overmeyer''s death, hoping to prove he died of natural causes. But she soon learns that the cranky hermit was the sole surviving member of a stock pooling agreement - and now the town is full of heirs.