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Poor Stanley Hastings! All his detective pursuits end in failure. So when Martin Albrecht comes to him with a case for a real detective, Stanley turns him away. Unfortunately, Stanley's accursed path leads to his finding Albrecht dead. Now that he's been challenged and has to take the case; maybe Stanley will finally prove that he's a real detective. To solve this case Stanley must descend into the modern-day inferno of drugs and mob operations. Will he come out of it alive...'Tags
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Protagonist Stanley Hastings is a private investigator thrown into a case he tried to get out of. During the case he learns that he isn't half the schmuck he thinks he is even if he goes about it all wrong.
The plot was interesting enough an moved along quite well but he ball is still in the air if I like the main character or not. He can be quite annoying at times. Hopefully he develops over the series. So, I will have to give another a try.
The plot was interesting enough an moved along quite well but he ball is still in the air if I like the main character or not. He can be quite annoying at times. Hopefully he develops over the series. So, I will have to give another a try.
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Parnell Hall is a part-time actor, a former private detective, singer/songwriter, and full-time writer of novels and screenplays. He writes the Stanley Hastings Mystery series, the Steve Winslow courtroom drama series, and the Puzzle Lady Mystery series. He also writes under the pseudonym J. P. Hailey. He wrote the screenplay to the 1984 movie show more C.H.U.D. Hall co-authored New York Times bestseller Smooth Operator with Stuart Woods. (Bowker Author Biography) Parnell Hall has been nominated for the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Lefty Awards for his mysteries. Bantam will publish his third Puzzle Lady mystery, Puzzled to Death, in Fall 2001. He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Detective
- Original title
- Detective
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Stanley Hastings
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; Miami, Florida, USA
- Dedication
- For Jim and Franny
- First words
- "I want to kill someone."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Not a damn one."
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Statistics
- Members
- 82
- Popularity
- 386,862
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.11)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
