Parnell Hall (writer)

Parnell Hall
Born	(1944-10-31)October 31, 1944 Culver City, California, U.S.
Died	December 15, 2020(2020-12-15) (aged 76)
Pen name	JP Hailey
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	American
Period	1980s–2020
Genre	Crime fiction, mystery fiction
Website
parnellhall.com

Parnell Hall (October 31, 1944 – December 15, 2020) was an American mystery writer.[1] 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.[2] He collaborated with Manny Nosowsky for crossword puzzles and with Will Shortz for sudoku puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories.[3][4]

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.[5]

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

Anthology or Collection	Contents	Publication Date	Comments
Crime Square	Times Square Shuffle		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
Murder at the Foul Line	Fear of Failure
Murder Most Crafty	Oh, What a Tangled Lanyard We Weave
Show Business is Murder	Line Reading
Death Dines In	Lethal Luncheon
Most Wanted	Faking it		An anthology of short stories by past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America
Murder Most Feline	The Witness Cat		JP Hailey
The Shamus Game	The Missing Heir
Canine Christmas	Clicker Training
Dark City Lights: New York Stories

Filmography

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

References

1. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, 4th ed. (Chicago: St James Press, 1996) 472-473
2. "FILM: 'C.H.U.D.,' A TALE OF STRANGE CREATURES" by Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times, Sept 01, 1984
3. Cross wits with the puzzle lady Archived 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, Parnell Hall. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
4. Hall, Parnell (2009). Dead Man's Puzzle. Puzzle Lady mysteries. Minotaur Books. ISBN 978-0-312-37399-3.
5. "In Memoriam: Parnell Hall". Games World of Puzzles. Vol. 45, no. 5. June 2021. p. 48. ISSN 1074-4355.

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

External links

• Official website
• Parnell Hall at IMDb
• Parnell Hall on MysteryNet
• Hall's experience at book signings on YouTube