Stakeout

A Stanley Hastings Mystery

Parnell Hall author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pegasus Books

Published:15th Jan '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Stakeout cover

Stanley Hastings finally felt like a real PI, staking out a New Jersey motel to get evidence on a woman's cheating husband. It should have been a piece of cake. Only the husband wasn't cheating, someone killed him, and the cops are trying to pin the murder on the man apprehended at the scene, who just happens to be Stanley.

To clear his name, Stanley will wind up jumping bail, impersonating a police officer, staking out a mob boss, and appropriating a murder weapon from a sassy Jersey Girl who keeps trying to distract him by ripping her clothes off.  And that's just for starters . . .

“The Stanley Hastings mysteries depend on subversively sly wordplay. In Caper, catching criminals is all very well, but in the violently verbal world he inhabits, Stanley would be happy just to win an argument.” -- Marilyn Stasio - The New York Times Book Review
“Parnell Hall succeeds in making Stanley Hastings one of a kind. Pleasantly reminiscent of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.” -- The Wall Street Journal
“The charm in Stanley Hastings lies in his chummy, loquacious, self-deprecating commentary as the narrator of his adventures.” -- The Washington Post Book World

ISBN: 9781605984025

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm

Weight: 430g

336 pages