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to the 1984

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'' C.H.U.D.''"FILM: 'C.H.U.D.,' A TALE OF STRANGE CREATURES"
by Lawrence Van Gelder,

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, Sept 01, 1984 He collaborated with Manny Nosowsky for

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puzzles and with Will Shortz for

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puzzles incorporated in Puzzle Lady stories. He also wrote under the pen name J.P. Hailey, under which he wrote the Steve Winslow series. He co-authored "Smooth Operator" with Stuart Woods. In 2019,

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gave him an award for Lifetime Achievement.

Bibliography

The Stanley Hastings Mysteries

#''Detective'' (1987) #''Murder'' (1988) #''Favor'' (1988) #''Strangler'' (1989) #''Client'' (1990) #''Juror'' (1990) #''Shot'' (1991) #''Actor'' (1993) #''Blackmail'' (1994) #''Movie'' (1995) #''Trial'' (1996) #''Scam'' (1997) #''Suspense'' (1998) #''Cozy'' (2001) #''Manslaughter'' (2002) #''Hitman'' (2007) #''Caper'' (2010) #''Stakeout'' (2013) #''Safari'' (2014) #''A Fool for a Client'' (2015)

The Puzzle Lady Mysteries

#''A Clue for the Puzzle Lady'' (1999) #''Last Puzzle & Testament'' (2000) #''Puzzled to Death'' (2001) #''A Puzzle in a Pear Tree'' (2002) #''With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill'' (2003) #''And a Puzzle to Die On'' (2004) #''Stalking the Puzzle Lady'' (2005) #''You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled'' (2006) #''The Sudoku Puzzle Murders'' (2008) #''Dead Man’s Puzzle'' (2009) #''The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady'' (2010) #''The KenKen Killings'' (2011) #''$10,000 in Small Unmarked Puzzles'' (2012) #''Arsenic and Old Puzzles'' (2013) #''NYPD Puzzle'' (2014) #''Puzzled Indemnity'' (2015) #''Presumed Puzzled'' (2016) #''A Puzzle to Be Named Later'' (2017) #''The Purloined Puzzle'' (2018) #Lights! Camera! Puzzles! (2019)

Teddy Fay novels (with Stuart Woods)

All these novels also feature Woods' popular character Stone Barrington. #''Smooth Operator'' (2016) #''The Money Shot'' (2018) #''Skin Game'' (2019) #''Bombshell'' (June 2, 2020)

Herbie Fisher novels (with Stuart Woods)

Also features Stone Barrington. #''Barely Legal'' (2017)

As J.P. Hailey

The Steve Winslow Courtroom Dramas

#''The Baxter Trust'' (1988) #''The Anonymous Client'' (1989) #''The Underground Man'' (1990) #''The Naked Typist'' (1990) #''The Wrong Gun'' (1992) #''The Innocent Woman'' (2011)

Thriller

#''Chasing Jack'' (2020)

Anthologies and collections

Filmography

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – 1984 – screenplay

References

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D) – https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/

External links

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