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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 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…?
Stanley Hastings, the New York private detective, is back in the swing of things. Playing it safe and toning down his investigations, however, doesn’t work for him because he is a trouble magnet. Stanley needs to help an apparently innocent housewife/call girl get out of the prostitution ring and retrieve a compromising video of her that is being held hostage by her pimp. Unfortunately, Stanley walks into the pimp’s apartment while a slaughter is in progress. To make matters worse, Stanley is the number-one suspect. Oh, what to do in this world of money, sex, and Murder!
Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known universe--enters the big league. When asked to investigate Sergeant MacAullif's son-in-law, Stanley gets himself into trouble yet again. Doing favors can create a lot of problems. When Stanley takes on the case, he ends up doing one more favor than he expected: he unwittingly takes the blame for the questionable dealings of MacAullif's son-in-law. Now he must find a way out of this mess. Maybe he'll learn to be more cautious next time he's asked to do a favor.
When clients whom bumbling private detective Stanley Hastings is routinely investigating for a law firm are being strangled, he must clear his own name and track down the serial killer
"What's wrong with me?" is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings's mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has absolutely no interest in being a P.I., but hey, he needs to pay the bills. The novice P.I.'s first victim … um … client is Marvin Nickleson, an ex-husband on the rampage. Stanley's first job seems easy-just get a picture of Nickleson's ex-wife with another man-until … well … he finds her DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. The murder weapon? In Stanley's car, of course. Stanley's second case is to save his own hide. What will this aspiring-writer-turned-detective do?
Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty, but the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu, whose magnetism is irresistible and whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted. He is know to some as the Teacher, and he's set his sights on Annie Laird.
This Edgar Award-nominated series features Stanley Hastings, the unsinkable Manhattan sleuth who always seems to find himself in big trouble. Hastings gets set to investigate the romantic intentions of a young man who's courting his client. But the young Romeo winds up dead, and Hastings' only paying client is getting booked for the crime. Mystery Guild Selection. Fine.
Stanley Hastings is called to Connecticut as a last-minute replacement for an actor in a play, and when the stage manager is mysteriously murdered, Stanley becomes the prime suspect
Agreeing to help a seemingly innocent girl who is threatened by someone claiming to have erotic photographs of her, private detective Stanley Hastings acquires the photos only to learn that the claims--and the girl's identity--are bogus. Reprint.