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In this exhilarating adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods, Teddy Fay races to stop a scheme of extortion and a hostile takeover. Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise--that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Pictures'' newest film. When the picture''s leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they''ve got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend authority and legitimacy to their artistic endeavors...and a little bit of vengeance in the bargain. From the seedy hidden corners of Los Angeles to the glamorous Hollywood hills, it will take every ounce of Teddy''s cunning to save an actress''s career, protect the studio, and finish filming Centurion''s next big hit.

Teddy Fay returns to his roots in espionage, in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can''t refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn''t seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger--and stranger--than he could imagine. The trail of bread crumbs leads to secrets hidden within secrets, evildoers trading in money and power, and a global threat on an unprecedented scale. Under the beautiful veneer of the City of Lights, true villainy lurks in the shadows...and Teddy Fay alone can prevent the impending disaster.

Teddy Fay returns to La-La Land in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand--or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It''s a lot of knives to juggle, even for a former-CIA-operative-turned-movie-producer accustomed to hazardous working conditions. This time Teddy will need to leverage every bit of his undercover skills and fearless daring to stay one step ahead of his foes . . . or he''ll find himself one foot in the grave.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 . . .

A Stanley Hastings mystery.

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

"Pure Parnell Hall - wit, intensity, sharp dialog and vivid characters ... maybe his best yet." Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author A relentless, darkly-funny thriller by Parnell Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of the Puzzle Lady series. Two killers are leaving a trail of mutilated corpses across Manhattan... while hunting a mysterious man with a name so common, they may never run out of victims. They are pursued by a disgraced cop, dying of cancer and desperate for redemption. Caught in the middle, but unaware of it, are a tabloid reporter and the cast of a troubled Broadway play facing a terrifying battle for their lives. "Chasing Jack is what you''ll find if you look up ''Black Humor'' in your Funkin'' Wagnalls. The wit is savage, the pace relentless. Parnell Hall, always outstanding, has never been better." Lawrence Block "Parnell Hall is a pro''s pro''s pro. No one else creates characters as deftly or puts them in heart-in-your-mouth situations with such economy. Read Chasing Jack once for the joy of it and a second time for a lesson in how thriller writing is done." SJ Rozan "Parnell Hall, a master of the genre, is on fire in Chasing Jack, a bloody, twisty tale set in the tabloid world of night time Manhattan. Required reading for mystery fans." Reed Farrel Coleman "Parnell Hall has long been one of the my favorite crime fiction writers. Chasing Jack is his best yet." Harlan Coben

Hired to write a book on sudoku, Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady, is baffled by the arrival of two rival Japanese publishers who are vying for her services, a situation that becomes increasingly complicated by the lengths to which the men will go to beat each other.

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

When the late Chester T. Markowitz, a man she never met, leaves $10,000 to his beloved wife, Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady can''t help cashing the check. Then Cora''s least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, shows up with an attorney, demanding that her alimony be terminated on the grounds that she remarried. When a key witness in the alimony hearing is murdered, a KenKen puzzle is left at the scene. Is someone trying to tell Cora something?

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.

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

When attorney Becky Baldwin hires Cora Felton to make a blackmail payment drop, it couldn''t go worse: she stumbles over a corpse and a puzzle, and someone steals the money. Becky won''t name her client, but the most likely suspect is Cora''s least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, who claims he''s being framed by a psychopath. Cora is in a no-win situation. Solving the murder will either put Melvin''s neck in a noose, or incur the wrath of a cold-blooded killer.

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.