In Detective, the first Stanley Hastings mystery story by Parnell Hall, Hastings is so unconfident he actually turns a case away. It doesn’t matter. The case comes to his doorstep anyway, and with a vengeance!

Hall, a former private detective, an actor and a multiple Mystery Writers of America Edgar nominee, introduces a classic bumbler who succeeds despite his best efforts to screw up. Kirkus Reviews found Detective “Engaging…thanks largely to Stanley’s shambling, casual, occasionally raunchy delivery.”

E-Reads carries several Stanley Hastings novels about which the reviewer for the Washington Post Book World says, “…The charm of Stanley Hastings lies in his chummy, loquacious, self-deprecating commentary as the narrator of this adventure.”

– Richard Curtis