Scam (Stanley Hastings Mystery Book 12)

Stanley Hastings client is lying to him. But that's a mere annoyance. The crooked cop framing him for three murders is a problem."What Mr. Hall does to the private-eye formula is very funny, but it is not frivolous. His puzzles, for all their manic nonsense, are fiendish constructions of sound logic." - Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review"As usual, Hall, like Rumplestiltskin, takes slender material that would serve another writer for a middling short story and spins a gossamer web of riddles by turns puzzling, suspenseful, and hilarious." - Kirkus"Hall weaves a tale worth of a Golden Age writer, with as many puzzles in one book as one is likely to find in four or five modern mysteries." - Deadly Pleasures"Fiendishly funny ... Smart dialogue, clever plotting, and a perfectly executed reverse scam by Hastings result in sparkling entertainment." - Publishers Weekly