Murder (Stanley Hastings Mysteries) - Hardcover

Hall, Parnell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556110588 ISBN 13: 9781556110580

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1988

Synopsis

When Stanley Hastings, a chivalrous gentleman but mediocre detective, agrees to help prostitute Pamela Berringer free herself from her pimp, Stanley winds up as the number one suspect in a murder investigation

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Hall made his notable debut with Detective. His hero, timid New York City private eye Stanley Hastings, recounts his new exploits here. By turns hair-raising and hilarious, the story concerns the troubles of Pamela Berringer, who lives in the same building as the detective's family and has a child in their son's kindergarten class. Pamela has been forced into prostitution because a pimp holds a tape that shows her as a seemingly consenting sex partner of a "client," but she was actually duped into the rendezvous. A thoroughly frightened Stanley goes to the pimp's lair in hopes that no one is at home so he can search for the tape. He finds it, but unluckily, he also finds the blackmailer fatally stabbed, and once more comes under fire from suspicious Sergeant MacAuliff, his nemesis in the first mystery. To clear his name, Hastings must produce evidence against the killer; in fear and trembling, he insinuates himself into the company of hoodlums and other murderous types. In the close, the author delivers a surprise that stresses the sleuth's warm, human side rather than his daring fecklessness. Troll Book Club selection; paperback rights to NAL.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1556110588
• ISBN 13: 9781556110580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256