Stuart Palmer

• Sep-2022
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His Honor finds a public-spirited corpse; the school-ma’am detective finds a murderer; and Inspector Piper discovers what was wrong with the four Fates, the beautiful marble hussy, and the nice young man with the beard. A Miss Hildegarde Wither...

• Nov-2021
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Hildegarde Withers was one of the first female schoolmarm detectives to appear in mystery. From her appearance in The Penguin Pool Murder in 1931, the teacher caught the attention of the American reading public. In the years that followed, she appear...

• Jul-2018
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Curtain rises on a lonely deserted dock on the Long Beach waterfront, where the schooner Carma has just been moored that afternoon. The date is December 6, 1932; the hour 9:30 of a dank and dripping evening. The scene is set for murder......

• May-2013
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Retired in Los Angeles, Miss Withers investigates a Tinseltown poisoning At Hollywood's most renowned cartoon studio, there are a few things you simply do not draw: snakes, cows with udders, violence, and death. So when Janet Poole finds a doodle ...

• May-2013
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Miss Withershas nine days to save a press agent from death row On a steamy day on Staten Island, a speeding car tears past a couple of beat cops and smashes into a delivery truck. In the front seat is Andy Rowan, pale and unconscious. In the back ...

• May-2013
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Spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Oscar Piper are on the case of murder among the dog breeders, in a case reminiscent of S.S. Van Dine's "The Kennel Murder Case" (1933)....

• May-2013
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To rescue a lost flower child, Miss Withersmust learn to think like a hippie During a six-week college break, Lenore Gregory does what all the young girls are doing in the winter of 1969: She heads to Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War, ...

• May-2013
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A comedian is dead, a witness is missing, and only Miss Witherscan set things right In comedy, timing is everything. If Tony Fagan were a better comic, perhaps he would've known when to keep his mouth shut. After weeks of jokes at the expense of b...

• May-2013
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On a gloomy old California estate, the Cameron heirs confront greed, madness, and murder In the heyday of silent cinema, Cameron Heights was billed as the "California Wonder Town." A sprawling development of lavish bungalows, its streets were name...

• May-2013
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A violent man is killed in a hit and run, and his wife is accused of the crime In the inky Los Angeles twilight, a man takes his dog for a walk. They are crossing the street when a station wagon comes charging around the curb, crashing into man an...

• May-2013
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A newspaperman investigates the strange case of a murdered society clown Howie Rook does not care for the police. After a long career in newspapers, he has seen too many cases loused up by unimaginative detectives to have any faith in by-the-book ...

• Jan-2013
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"Those who have not already made the acquaintance of Hildegarde should make haste to do so, for she is one of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives." -- The New York TimesMiss Hildegarde Withers, middle-aged school teacher and amateur sl...

• Jul-1991
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• 1949
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A woman is murdered in her hotel roomand she is only the first to die With a seven-hundred-dollar inheritance in her pocket, small town librarian Harriet Bascom went to the track. By the time she left she had thousandsenough to live life the way s...

• 1947
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When Inspector Oscar Piper asks his old friend Hildegarde Withers to stop meddling in murder, she surprisingly agrees. But old habits die hard and Hildy soon finds herself back in harness, investigating suspects and snooping for clues. Oddly enough, ...

• 1947
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A sharp-witted Manhattan schoolteacher tackles eight little mysteries in this collection from the author of The Puzzle of the Happy Holligan.   When not teaching third graders, middle-aged singleton Hildegard Withers enjoys sipping oran...

• 1944
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• 1941
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Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up. Her own death brings Inspector Piper to the scene, and her resurrection cuts through Hollywood red tape as she becomes a target...

• 1937
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Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull. Inspector Oscar Piper is off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 (surrounded by a bunch of Democrats, huffed Miss Withers) whe...

• 1935
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Odds for murder...

Top model Violet Feverel should be a pretty picture riding the big red thoroughbred Siwash - but the front page photo on the tabloids is ugly as death. The police dub the tragedy an unfortunate accident. But Miss Hildegar...

• 1934
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Miss Hildegarde Withers takes a vacation trip on the S.S. American Diplomat, but she is soon put to work solving the disappearance of a young heiress and the systematic murders of her table companions...

• 1933
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“I don’t want to die,” said the man in the brown suit, who was the last passenger to board the little airplane, but he did. The other passengers thought he was just airsick and the pilots of the Dragonfly assumed it was a heart a...

• 1932
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Hildegarde Withers, schoolteacher and amateur detective, stumbles onto the corpse of Jefferson Grammar School''s attractive young music teacher. When Miss Withers goes for help, the body plays hooky, and when Homicide Inspector Oscar Piper starts ...

• 1932
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In Murder on Wheels, the indomitable Hildegarde Withers returns to solve another baffling crime. This time, the sharp-witted schoolteacher-turned-detective finds herself entangled in a perplexing murder case involving a deadly automobile accident tha...

• 1931
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Death on Display Miss Hildegarde withers comes to the New York Aquarium to see the Galapagos penguins--not a corpse. But there, floating before her very eyes, grotesquely out of place, is the late Gerald Lester, Will Street broker. Inspector Piper...