Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landau Lost Classics) [Paperback]

Stuart Palmer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Crippen & Landau Lost Classics | Publication Date: September 2, 2002

HILDEGARDE IS BACK!

Hildegarde Withers, the creation of Stuart Palmer (1905-1968), is the original schoolmarm detective. After she first appeared in The Penguin Pool Murder in 1931, she was so popular that a series of movies starring Edna Mae Oliver and James Gleason followed, and Palmer wrote short stories about Miss Withers for Mystery, a slick-paper magazine sold only in Woolworth's stores between 1933 and 1935. These stories, filled with the sights and sounds of New York during the depression – museums, flea-circuses, burlesque shows, Latin gigolos – are genuine forgotten classics. The introduction is by Stuart Palmer's widow, Jennifer Venola.

This is the 4th volume is "Crippen & Landru Lost Classics."

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Also lending a nostalgic view of an earlier New York, here the 1930s and featuring a schoolmarm sleuth, is Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, another entry in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series. Available as well are two other original story collections: The Sleuth of Baghdad: The Inspector Chafik Stories, by Charles B. Child (the pseudonym of British author Claude Vernon Frost), whose hero provides some timely insight into Iraqi culture and politics ($27 196p ISBN 1-885941-74-9; $17 paper -75-7), and Georges Simenon's The 13 Culprits: (Les 13 Coupables), translated by Peter Schulman, which gathers 13 pre-Maigret tales never before published in English ($35 174p ISBN 1-885941-78-1; $16 paper -79-X).
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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Crippen & Landru Pub; 1st edition (September 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885941854
• ISBN-13: 978-1885941855
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,064,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MISS WHITERS IS BACK!, December 4, 2002

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This review is from: Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landau Lost Classics) (Paperback)

This new Lost Classics edition is one of the best. The long forgoten Stuart Palmer deserves to be read today, and this collection of short stories are a great example of good plot in mysteries. The story are a delight (the dog competion is very good). This is a book that every mystery lover must buy!