Publishing In the 21st Century » Parnell Hall http://ereads.com Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Fri, 25 May 2012 02:18:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Brilliant Detective in Spite of Himself http://ereads.com/2008/08/brilliant-detective-in-spite-of-himself.html http://ereads.com/2008/08/brilliant-detective-in-spite-of-himself.html#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:00:00 +0000 Richard Curtis http://ereadsdev.com/?p=221 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

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