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 1984's C.H.U.D."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.Cross wits with the puzzle lady , Parnell Hall. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
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.
Hall died on December 15, 2020, at the age of 76.
Bibliography
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) Stakeout (2013) Safari (2014) A Fool for a Client (2015)
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) $10,000 in Small Unmarked Puzzles (2012) Arsenic and Old Puzzles (2013) NYPD Puzzle (2014) Puzzled Indemnity (2015) Presumed Puzzled (2016) A Puzzle to Be Named Later (2017) The Purloined Puzzle (2018) Lights! Camera! Puzzles! (2019)
Teddy Fay novels (with Stuart Woods) All these novels also feature Woods' popular character Stone Barrington.
Smooth Operator (2016) The Money Shot (2018) Skin Game (2019) Bombshell (June 2, 2020)
Herbie Fisher novels (with Stuart Woods) Also features Stone Barrington.
Barely Legal (2017)
As J.P. Hailey
The Steve Winslow Courtroom Dramas
The Baxter Trust (1988) The Anonymous Client (1989) The Underground Man (1990) The Naked Typist (1990) The Wrong Gun (1992) The Innocent Woman (2011)
Thriller
Chasing Jack (2020)
Anthologies and collections Anthology or CollectionContentsPublication DateCommentsCrime SquareTimes Square ShuffleEdited by Robert J. RandisiCrimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark SideDeath of a VampireApril 2010Edited by Charlaine HarrisDead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker TableDeal Me InMurder at the Foul LineFear of FailureMurder Most CraftyOh, What a Tangled Lanyard We WeaveShow Business is MurderLine ReadingDeath Dines InLethal LuncheonMost WantedFaking itAn anthology of short stories by past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of AmericaMurder Most FelineThe Witness CatJP HaileyThe Shamus GameThe Missing HeirCanine ChristmasClicker TrainingDark City Lights: New York Stories
Filmography Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – 1984 – screenplay
References
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/
External links
Parnell Hall on MysteryNet