Asked by a friendly adversary to perform a favor, Stanley Hastings finds himself indicted for grand larceny and named a prime suspect for two murders. Stanley must use every ploy he can muster, and a few he borrows from detective stories he's read, to clear his name.
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Asked by a friendly adversary to perform a favor, Stanley Hastings finds himself indicted for grand larceny and named a prime suspect for two murders. Stanley must use every ploy he can muster, and a few he borrows from detective stories he's read, to clear his name.
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Fair. Shows wear such as frayed or folded edges, rips and tears, and/or worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 20x20x20; Signed by Author on title page. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, creases & toning in a mylar cover.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "Stanley Hastings is just a guy who can't say "no." When Sgt. William MacAuliff of the NYPD asks a favor, Stanley's obliging nature catapults him into a web of intrigue that is pure entertainment for the reader. In Hall's third novel (after "Murder" ) featuring the reluctant amateur sleuth, Stanley's job as drone for an ambulance-chasing attorney becomes secondary to the favor he must perform. So he heads to Atlantic City to investigate the peccadillos of MacAuliff's sleazy son-in-law, Harold Dunleavy. Using a hilarious, albeit unbelievable, modus operandi, Stanley becomes entangled with the mob, a blackmail scheme and two murders. Not surprisingly, he is the prime suspect in both murders and must somehow manage to clear his name while protecting MacAuliff's interests. Stanley's chutzpah, under the circumstances, is admirable."--PW.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Reading Copy with publisher's material laid in including a black and white photograph of the author.