Scam

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