title: A Fool for a Client: A Stanley Hastings Mystery (Stanley Hastings Mysteries)
author:  Parnell Hall 
description: <em>A Fool for a Client</em> is one of Hall's best ... Hall handles comic dialogue as well as any in crime fiction, and while Stanley gets the brunt of most of it, he usually manages to solve the crime before anyone else.<br /> - <strong><em>Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine</em></strong><br /><br />A joy to read...well-plotted and confidently written...equal parts Perry Mason and Groucho Marx is Hall at the top of his game.<br /> - <strong><em>Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</em></strong><br /><br />Pleasures can be found in the swashbuckling style and canny legal maneuvers.<br /> - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />In a dry comic voice, Stanley narrates this account of his furtive investigation into three murders that the other tourists observe with remarkable sang-froid.<br /> - <strong>Marilyn Stasio, <em>The New York Times Book Review (on 'Safari')</em></strong><br /><br />The Stanley Hastings mysteries depend on subversively sly wordplay. In the violently verbal world he inhabits, Stanley would be happy just to win an argument.<br /> - <strong>Marilyn Stasio, <em>The New York Times Book Review (on 'Caper')</em></strong><br /><br />Parnell Hall succeeds in making Stanley Hastings one of a kind.<br /> - <strong><em>The Wall Street Journal (on 'Caper')</em></strong>
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  Fenchurch Street Mystery
  
  
    
    
  CHAPTER I. THE FENCHURCH STREET MYSTERY  
    
  CHAPTER II. A MILLIONAIRE IN THE DOCK  
    
  CHAPTER III. HIS DEDUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Fenchurch Street Mystery
  
  
  ### Baroness Orczy
  
  
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  * CHAPTER I. THE FENCHURCH STREET MYSTERY
  
  
  * CHAPTER II. A MILLIONAIRE IN THE DOCK
  
  
  * CHAPTER III. HIS DEDUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### CHAPTER I. THE FENCHURCH STREET
  
  
  MYSTERY
  
  
  THE man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the
  
  
  table.
  
  
  "Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in
  
  
  connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear
  
  
  upon its investigation."
  
  
  Very much astonished Polly Burton looked over the top of her
  
  
  newspaper, and fixed a pair of very severe, coldly inquiring brown eyes
  
  
  upon him.
  
  
  She had disapproved of the man from the instant when he shuffled
  
  
  across the sh