New Releases by Parnell Hall

Stanley Hastings, détective de son état, le savait : ces vacances avaient mal commencé, elles ne pouvaient que plus mal finir encore. Jamais il n''aurait dû partir faire de la randonnée en Nouvelle-Angleterre. La marche à pied est un sport dur (en tout cas pour Stanley) et, sur les sentiers qui mènent aux points de vue pittoresques, on croise toutes sortes de gens, dont un couple à la blondeur et au bronzage carrément inhumains. les choses se gâtent quand Stanley et sa femme arrivent à l''auberge de l''Etang des Grenouilles bleues, un endroit improbable où les murs sont en papier à cigarette, les portes des chambres ornées de splendides effigies de grenouilles (bleues comme il se doit) et où ne manquent pas de réapparaître tous les vacanciers croisés sur les sentiers, la belle blonde en tête. Sauf que la belle blonde ne tarde pas à trépasser. Devant tous les hôtes attablés dans la salle à manger. Voilà qui va pimenter les vacances de Stanley.

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.

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.

Stanley Hastings must work to clear his name when the people involved in his most recent case, including his client, start turning up dead.--

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.

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.

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

This Edgar Award-nominated series features Stanley Hastings, the unsinkable Manhattan sleuth who always seems to find himself in big trouble. Hastings gets set to investigate the romantic intentions of a young man who''s courting his client. But the young Romeo winds up dead, and Hastings'' only paying client is getting booked for the crime. Mystery Guild Selection. Fine.

Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty, but the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu, whose magnetism is irresistible and whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted. He is know to some as the Teacher, and he''s set his sights on Annie Laird.

Blessed with a paying client, Stanley Hastings soon finds himself cursed with the onus of suspicion when the woman he is following is murdered, and the sleuth''s efforts to clear his name take him to the highest levels of New York government

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