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Stephen James Hall
File:Stephen James Hall at Upton Park, West Ham United..jpg|Caption1 Stephen James Hall (31 October 1957), who writes professionally as Stephen James Hall is an English writer, born in Ilford outside London, England. He is best known for writing Chasing the Will the crime/mystery novel, which will be published in 2012. He lived in London, Southend and Nottingham, England before moving to the Caribbean in 2010. He writes the kind of books, screenplays and theatre plays he likes to read - not eminent literary fiction, but humorous light entertainment that readers will enjoy while they escape from their daily lives for a few hours.

Early Life
Stephen lived in Ilford, near East London and then attended early schools in South Benfleet, Essex before moving to Nottingham. He attended catering college in Harper Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire.

Early work involved management positions with the Grand Metropolitan Hotel and Catering Group before he started his own self employed financial adviser’s business. This migrated into a Will Writing & Estate Planning business - Stephen Hall Associates, where he advised major UK legal companies for over twenty years before taking up writing full time.

Novel & screenplay – Chasing The Will
This first book in the trilogy introduces Lara Miller, a twenty-five year old lesbian and her amateur staid sleuthing partner, fifty-four year old David Shelton.

In Chasing The Will when Londoner Harold Webber dies, his daughter discovers that his Will has been forged by two serial scammers who prey on lonely, elderly people to steal their properties and estates. The police won’t help so Webber’s daughter teams up with his lawyer to expose the fraudsters. Enter a young American blonde who says she was Webber’s last lover and was promised everything. Likewise a Barbadian beauty. Are they gold-diggers or is one of them telling the truth and who will claim the estate?

A diary of writing and publication of Chasing the Will is accessible at http://www.stephenhallonline.com/?cat=33 [1]

Unnamed movie screenplay
Stephen James Hall has completed the screenplay for a movie that begins filming in February 2012 in New York, USA. The confidentiality agreement prevents the movie being named. This update is valid December 28th 2011.

Play – Who Killed Donald?
A reunion in Barbados is about friends in a high school inner circle who agreed to meet in Barbados twenty years after leaving school. Finding their friendships and loves have changed and talking though the death of one of their clique, truth reveals a murderer with dreadful consequences.

Screenplay – Stand Up or Fall Down
Hilarious stand up comedian Paige Brooke fills the theatres by night as by day her life falls apart. She needs to guarantee her children’s home and education before authorities remove them, permanently.

Non-fiction book - Old Trafford to Paradise
Amateur Sunday league footballer, gifted the opportunity via charity work to play for Manchester United at the Theatre of Dreams, (then later Chelsea, West Ham United, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City) reaches the age where the boots should be hung up. Luckily, a move to the Caribbean extends his football career, giving five more seasons learning how to play the game again, while living life in a tropical paradise. [2]