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Parnell Hall

(1944 - 2020)

aka J P Hailey

Parnell Hall was a nominee for the Edgar, Shamus and Lefty awards, and was the creator of the Stanley Hastings mystery novels and Steve Winslow courtroom series as well as the author of A Clue For Puzzle Lady and Last Puzzle and Testament.

Awards: Shamus (2016) see all

Genres: Mystery, Cozy Mystery

New and upcoming books

November 2024

Reporter Noir

Series

Stanley Hastings
   1. Detective (1987)
   2. Murder (1987)
   3. Favor (1988)
   4. Strangler (1989)
   5. Client (1990)
   6. Juror (1990)
   7. Shot (1991)
   8. Actor (1993)
   9. Blackmail (1994)
   10. Movie (1995)
   11. Trial (1996)
   12. Scam (1997)
   13. Suspense (1998)
   14. Cozy (2000)
   15. Manslaughter (2003)
   16. Hitman (2007)
   17. Caper (2010)
   18. Stakeout (2013)
   Clicker Training (2013)
   Death of a Vampire (2013)
   19. Safari (2014)
   20. A Fool for a Client (2015)
   Deal Me In (2017)
   Fear of Failure (2017)
   Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave (2017)
   The Dead Client (2020)
   The Naked and the Dead (2020)

Puzzle Lady
   1. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (1999)
   2. Last Puzzle and Testament (2000)
   3. Puzzled to Death (2001)
   4. A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (2002)
   5. With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill (2003)
   6. And a Puzzle to Die on (2004)
   7. Stalking the Puzzle Lady (2005)
   8. You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled (2006)
   9. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders (2008)
   10. Dead Man's Puzzle (2009)
   11. The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (2010)
   12. The KenKen Killings (2011)
   13. $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles (2012)
   14. Arsenic and Old Puzzles (2013)
   Lethal Luncheon (2013)
   15. NYPD Puzzle (2014)
   16. Puzzled Indemnity (2015)
   17. Presumed Puzzled (2016)
   18. A Puzzle to Be Named Later (2017)
   19. The Purloined Puzzle (2018)
   20. Lights! Camera! Puzzles! (2019)

Novels

Barely Legal (2017) (with Stuart Woods)
Chasing Jack (2020)

Collections

Reporter Noir (2024) (with others)

Series contributed to

Teddy Fay
   1. Smooth Operator (2016) (with Stuart Woods)
   2. The Money Shot (2018) (with Stuart Woods)
   3. Skin Game (2019) (with Stuart Woods)
   4. Bombshell (2020) (with Stuart Woods)

Books containing stories by Parnell Hall

Murder Most Edible (2019)
(Malice Domestic, book 14)
edited by
Rita Owen, Verena Rose and Shawn Reilly Simmons

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016)
Classic Christmas Carols with a Twist of Crime
edited by
Otto Penzler

Dark City Lights (2015)
New York Stories
edited by
Lawrence Block

More books

Awards

	2016 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story : The Dead Client
	2015 The Eye, the PWA's Lifetime Achievement award

Award nominations

	2006 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story (nominee) : Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave
	1998 Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel (nominee) : Scam
	1996 Shamus Award for Best PI Novel (nominee) : Movie
	1996 Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel (nominee) : Movie
	1988 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee) : Detective
	1988 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Detective

Parnell Hall recommends

Getting Old Is Murder (2005)
(Gladdy Gold, book 1)
Rita Lakin
"If getting old is this much fun, maybe I won't mind! Miss Marple, move over! Gladdy's Gladiators are a hoot! Rita Lakin's witty romp through a Florida retirement community is just the thing for what ails you!"

Shop Till You Drop (2003)
(Dead-End Job, book 1)
Elaine Viets
"Fresh, funny, and fiendishly constructed, SHOP TILL YOU DROP gleefully skewers cosmetic surgery, ultra exclusive clothing boutiques, cheating ex-husbands, and the Florida dating game, as attractive newcomer Helen Hawthorne takes on the first of her deliciously awful dead-end jobs and finds herself enmeshed in drugs, embezzlement, and murder. A bright start to an exciting new series. This one is hard to beat."

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