Detective (Stanley Hastings Series #1)
Stanley Hastings, the world's most unlikely private eye, a struggling actor/writer trying to support his wife and kid in New York City, who chases ambulances for a negligence lawyer and carries a camera instead of a gun and photographs accident victims and the cracks in the sidewalk that tripped them, tackles his first real case, tracking down the murderers of a client he could not save because he wasn't a real detective.
1988 Edgar Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Shamus Award Best First Mystery Nominee
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1988 Edgar Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Shamus Award Best First Mystery Nominee
Detective (Stanley Hastings Series #1)
Stanley Hastings, the world's most unlikely private eye, a struggling actor/writer trying to support his wife and kid in New York City, who chases ambulances for a negligence lawyer and carries a camera instead of a gun and photographs accident victims and the cracks in the sidewalk that tripped them, tackles his first real case, tracking down the murderers of a client he could not save because he wasn't a real detective.
1988 Edgar Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Shamus Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Edgar Award Best First Mystery Nominee
1988 Shamus Award Best First Mystery Nominee
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Detective (Stanley Hastings Series #1)
Detective (Stanley Hastings Series #1)
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781936441136 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Parnell Hall |
| Publication date: | 11/11/2010 |
| Series: | Stanley Hastings Series , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 191,837 |
| File size: | 322 KB |
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