Parnell Hall
Encyclopedia
Parnell Hall is a mystery
writer. His works include the Puzzle Lady and the Stanley Hastings series, as well as the screenplay
to the 1984 cult classic
, C.H.U.D.
He has collaborated with Manny Nosowsky
for crossword
puzzles and with Will Shortz
for sudoku
puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories.
He also has written under the pen name J.P. Hailey, under which he wrote the Steve Winslow series.
"Deal Me In" in Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
"Fear of Faliure" Murder at the Foul Line
"Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave" in Murder Most Crafty
"Line Reading" in Show Business is Murder
"Lethal Luncheon" in Death Dines In
"Faking it" in Most Wanted (An anthology of short stories by past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America)
"The Witness Cat" (JP Hailey) in Murder Most Feline
"The Missing Heir" in The Shamus Game
"Clicker Training" in Canine Christmas
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
writer. His works include the Puzzle Lady and the Stanley Hastings series, as well as the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
to the 1984 cult classic
Cult Classic
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, C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D.
C.H.U.D. is a 1984 American horror film produced by Andrew Bonime, and directed by Douglas Cheek with Peter Stein as the director of photography and William Bilowit as production designer. The cast includes Daniel Stern and John Heard. It was followed in 1989 by C.H.U.D. II: Bud the...
He has collaborated with Manny Nosowsky
Manny Nosowsky
Manny Nosowsky is a U.S. crossword puzzle creator. A medical doctor by training, he retired from a San Francisco urology practice and, beginning in 1991, has created crossword puzzles that have been published in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers...
for crossword
Crossword
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer...
puzzles and with Will Shortz
Will Shortz
Will Shortz is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.-Early life and education:...
for sudoku
Sudoku
is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...
puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories.
He also has written under the pen name J.P. Hailey, under which he wrote the Steve Winslow series.
The Stanley Hastings mysteries
- Detective (1987)
- Murder (1988)
- Favor (1988)
- Strangler (1989)
- Client (1990)
- Juror (1990)
- Shot (1991)
- Actor (1993)
- Blackmail (1994)
- Movie (1995)
- Trial (1996)
- Scam (1997)
- Suspense (1998)
- Cozy (2001)
- Manslaughter (2002)
- Hitman (2007)
- Caper (2010)
The Puzzle Lady mysteries
- A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (1999)
- Last Puzzle & Testament (2000)
- Puzzled to Death (2001)
- A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (2002)
- With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill (2003)
- And a Puzzle to Die On (2004)
- Stalking the Puzzle Lady (2005)
- You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled (2006)
- The Sudoku Puzzle Murders (2008)
- Dead Man’s Puzzle (2009)
- The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (2010)
- The KenKen Killings (2011)
The Steve Winslow courtroom dramas by JP Hailey
- The Baxter Trust (1988)
- The Anonymous Client (1989)
- The Underground Man (1990)
- The Naked Typist (1990)
- The Wrong Gun (1992)
Short stories
"Death of a Vampire." in Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side -Edited by Charlaine Harris. April, (2010)"Deal Me In" in Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table
"Fear of Faliure" Murder at the Foul Line
"Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave" in Murder Most Crafty
"Line Reading" in Show Business is Murder
"Lethal Luncheon" in Death Dines In
"Faking it" in Most Wanted (An anthology of short stories by past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America)
"The Witness Cat" (JP Hailey) in Murder Most Feline
"The Missing Heir" in The Shamus Game
"Clicker Training" in Canine Christmas
External links
- Parnell Hall on MysteryNet
- Hall's experience at book signings on YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....