Parnell Hall
Bakerhaven, Connecticut, seems...
It looks like wedding bells again for the much-married Cora Felton when distinguished widower Raymond Harstein III moves into town and makes a play for the Puzzle Lady. That is, it does until the mail brings puzzling cryptograms, which, when deciphered,...
A Puzzle In A Pear...
7) Caper
The latest in the beloved Stanley Hastings series—the unlikeliest private eye in New York City, who doesn't even carry a gun  Poor Stanley Hastings. After getting hired by a hitman and nearly getting shot, the put-upon PI needed some fun, so when a gorgeous damsel in distress walks through his office door she seems just what the doctor ordered.  Wrong again.  The fair maiden turns out to be a married mom who wants Stanley to find out
...The new crime thriller in the ever-funny and charming Stanley Hastings mystery series, featuring the only detective in New York City who doesn't carry a gunStanley Hastings finally felt like a real PI, staking out a New Jersey motel to get evidence on a woman's cheating husband.It should have been a piece of cake. Only the husband wasn't cheating, someone killed him, and the cops are trying to pin the murder on the man apprehended at the scene,
...Wealthy widow Emma Hurley died with only her servants at her...