The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers
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When not teaching third graders, middle-aged singleton Hildegard Withers enjoys sipping orange pekoe tea, reading Sherlock Holmes stories, and tending to her tropical fish. And from time to time, she also helps her friend, Insp. Oscar Piper, with some puzzling cases . . .
Miss Withers goes undercover at an affluent dinner party, but murder cuts the evening short.
Hildegarde races to prove a young songwriter's death was a homicide and force her killer to face the music.
A mahogany wardrobe for sale at a local auction house contains a peculiar surprise: the body of a man Miss Withers was hired to find.
A doctor pays a house call to a sick patient on Riverside Drive, but the housekeeper thinks she just let him in, so . . . who is upstairs with her boss?
Miss Withers investigates a curious case of blackmail involving packages containing the violet gemstone.
A baffling locked-room murder sends Miss Withers on a field trip to the NYPD's famed collection of apprehended weapons.
Apartment hunting in New York can be killer, but Miss Withers wasn't expecting a robbery and a shooting, too.
After a possible spy uses her name in bars around town, Hildegarde's search for answers leads her to a Greenwich Village murder.
Her style may be eccentric, but Miss Withers is as clever as they come. If you enjoy reading these cases, be sure to check out any of the full-length mysteries in the series like
,
, or
.
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About Stuart Palmer
Stuart Palmer (1905–1968) was an American author of mysteries. Born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Palmer worked a number of odd jobs—including apple picking, journalism, and copywriting—before publishing his first novel, the crime drama
, in 1931. It was with his second novel, however, that he established his writing career:
introduced Hildegarde Withers, a schoolmarm who, on a field trip to the New York Aquarium, discovers a dead body in the pool. Withers was an immensely popular character, and went on to star in thirteen more novels, including
(1947) and
(1951).
A master of intricate plotting, Palmer found success writing for Hollywood, where several of his books, including
, were filmed by RKO Pictures Inc.
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age “fair play” mystery.
Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen’s first appearance came in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as
. Their character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded
, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee’s death.
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