Hellinger's Law is a 1981 TV movie starring Telly Savalas, and directed by Leo Penn.
It was the pilot for a proposed TV series starring Savalas which was not made, and was screened as a stand-alone film.
Filming was to have begun on 27 February 1980 but was pushed back, reportedly to iron out script problems.
"[2] In December 1980, approximately three months before the telefilm aired, Jove Books released a novelization of the teleplay.
The legal-sounding by-line is by author "Justin Barr", which is probably a pseudonym as it appears on no other published work, and novelization commissions tend to go to writers with prior book credits.