Stuart Palmer

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1931
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Hildegarde Withers Mystery

1 - The Penguin Pool Murder (1931)
2 - Murder on Wheels (1932)
3 - Murder on the Blackboard (1932)
4 - The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree (1933)
5 - The Puzzle of the Silver Persian (1934)
6 - The Puzzle of the Red Stallion (1935)
7 - The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (1937)
8 - The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (1941)
9 - The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers (1947)
10 - Miss Withers Regrets (1947)
11 - Four Lost Ladies (1949)
12 - The Green Ace // At One Fell Swoop (1950)
13 - The Monkey Murder and other Tales (1950)
14 - Nipped in the Bud // Trap for a Redhead (1951)
15 - Cold Poison // Exit Laughing (1954)
16 - People Vs. Withers & Malone (1963)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Penguin Pool Murder

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 1

    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...

  • Murder on the Blackboard

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 3

    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 ...

  • Murder on Wheels

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 2

    A mystery that involves the murder, by hanging, of a twin brother while in a car on Fifth Avenue in New York City during rush hour. A cabbie saw the victim fly up and out of the car backwards and then the driverless car crashed....

  • The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 4

    “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...

  • The Puzzle of the Silver Persian

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 5

    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...

  • The Puzzle of the Red Stallion

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 6

    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...

  • The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 7

    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...

  • The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 8

    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...

  • Miss Withers Regrets

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 10

    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, ...



  • The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 9

    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 orange pekoe ...

  • Four Lost Ladies

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 11

    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...

  • The Green Ace // At One Fell Swoop

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 12

  • The Monkey Murder and other Tales

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 13

  • Nipped in the Bud // Trap for a Redhead

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 14

  • Cold Poison // Exit Laughing

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 15

  • People Vs. Withers & Malone

    A Hildegarde Withers Mystery - 16

  • Homicide and Suicide

  • The People Versus Withers and Malone

  • The Cases of Hildegarde Withers

    “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 amateu...



  • Cold Poison

    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 doodl...

  • The Green Ace

    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 ...

  • Hildegarde Withers in The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders

    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)....

  • Hildegarde Withers Makes the Scene

    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, ...

  • Nipped in the Bud

    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...

  • Omit Flowers

    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 ...

  • Rook Takes Knight

    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...

  • Unhappy Hooligan

    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 ...

  • Once Aboard the Lugger

    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…...

  • Hildegarde Withers

    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...



  • The Riddle of the Marble Blade

    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...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stuart Palmer has published 30 books.

Stuart Palmer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Riddle of the Marble Blade, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Stuart Palmer, The Penguin Pool Murder, was published in January 1931.

Yes. Stuart Palmer has 1 series.
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