With the success of "Flight into Danger", Hailey was in demand as a television writer, and wrote for such shows as "Studio One", "Kraft Television Theatre", "Playhouse 90", and "Suspense". In 1959, he adapted his teleplay "No Deadly Medicine" (for which he won an Emmy nomination) into his first novel "The Final Diagnosis." Published by Doubleday, it's the story of the chief pathologist at a Burlington, Pennsylvania, hospital. The book received good reviews, and was a selection of the Literary Guild of America.