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Parnell Hall (writer)

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| pseudonym = JP Hailey

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|10|31|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Culver City, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|15|1944|10|31}}

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| occupation = Novelist, short story writer

| nationality = American

| period = 1980s–2020

| genre = Crime fiction, mystery fiction

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| website = {{URL|parnellhall.com}}

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Parnell Hall (October 31, 1944 – December 15, 2020) was an American mystery writer.St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, 4th ed. (Chicago: St James Press, 1996) 472-473 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.[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A05E1DB1038F932A3575AC0A962948260 "FILM: 'C.H.U.D.,' A TALE OF STRANGE CREATURES"] by Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times, Sept 01, 1984 He collaborated with Manny Nosowsky for crossword puzzles and with Will Shortz for sudoku puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories.[http://www.parnellhall.com/index.html Cross wits with the puzzle lady] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926030003/http://parnellhall.com/index.html |date=2010-09-26 }}, Parnell Hall. Retrieved 2010-09-05.{{cite book |last = Hall |first = Parnell |title = Dead Man's Puzzle |publisher = Minotaur Books |series = Puzzle Lady mysteries |year = 2009 |isbn = 978-0-312-37399-3 }}

He also wrote under the pen name J.P. Hailey, under which he wrote the Steve Winslow series. He co-authored "Smooth Operator" with Stuart Woods.

In 2019, Malice Domestic gave him an award for Lifetime Achievement.{{cite magazine|title=In Memoriam: Parnell Hall |magazine=Games World of Puzzles |date=June 2021 |page=48 |volume=45 |number=5 |issn=1074-4355}}

Bibliography

=The Stanley Hastings Mysteries=

  1. Detective (1987)
  2. Murder (1988)
  3. Favor (1988)
  4. Strangler (1989)
  5. Client (1990)
  6. Juror (1990)
  7. Shot (1991)
  8. Actor (1993)
  9. Blackmail (1994)
  10. Movie (1995)
  11. Trial (1996)
  12. Scam (1997)
  13. Suspense (1998)
  14. Cozy (2001)
  15. Manslaughter (2002)
  16. Hitman (2007)
  17. Caper (2010)
  18. Stakeout (2013)
  19. Safari (2014)
  20. A Fool for a Client (2015)

=The Puzzle Lady Mysteries=

  1. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady (1999)
  2. Last Puzzle & Testament (2000)
  3. Puzzled to Death (2001)
  4. A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (2002)
  5. With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill (2003)
  6. And a Puzzle to Die On (2004)
  7. Stalking the Puzzle Lady (2005)
  8. You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled (2006)
  9. The Sudoku Puzzle Murders (2008)
  10. Dead Man’s Puzzle (2009)
  11. The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (2010)
  12. The KenKen Killings (2011)
  13. $10,000 in Small Unmarked Puzzles (2012)
  14. Arsenic and Old Puzzles (2013)
  15. NYPD Puzzle (2014)
  16. Puzzled Indemnity (2015)
  17. Presumed Puzzled (2016)
  18. A Puzzle to Be Named Later (2017)
  19. The Purloined Puzzle (2018)
  20. Lights! Camera! Puzzles! (2019)

=Teddy Fay novels (with [[Stuart Woods]])=

All these novels also feature Woods' popular character Stone Barrington.

  1. Smooth Operator (2016)
  2. The Money Shot (2018)
  3. Skin Game (2019)
  4. Bombshell (June 2, 2020)

= Herbie Fisher novels (with Stuart Woods) =

Also features Stone Barrington.

  1. Barely Legal (2017)

= As J.P. Hailey =

==The Steve Winslow Courtroom Dramas==

  1. The Baxter Trust (1988)
  2. The Anonymous Client (1989)
  3. The Underground Man (1990)
  4. The Naked Typist (1990)
  5. The Wrong Gun (1992)
  6. The Innocent Woman (2011)

==Thriller==

  1. Chasing Jack (2020)

=Anthologies and collections=

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!Anthology or Collection

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Crime Square

|Times Square Shuffle

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|Edited by Robert J. Randisi

Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side

|Death of a Vampire

|April 2010

|Edited by Charlaine Harris

Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table

|Deal Me In

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Murder at the Foul Line

|Fear of Failure

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Murder Most Crafty

|Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave

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Show Business is Murder

|Line Reading

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Death Dines In

|Lethal Luncheon

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Most Wanted

|Faking it

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|An anthology of short stories by past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America

Murder Most Feline

|The Witness Cat

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|JP Hailey

The Shamus Game

|The Missing Heir

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Canine Christmas

|Clicker Training

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Dark City Lights: New York Stories

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Filmography

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – 1984 – screenplay

References

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Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.parnellhall.com}}
  • {{IMDb name|id=0355973|name=Parnell Hall}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20101206051606/http://www.mysterynet.com/hall/author.shtml Parnell Hall] on MysteryNet
  • {{YouTube|_ZoJ5OKmEJY|Hall's experience at book signings}}

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Category:American male short story writers

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Category:Novelists from California