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  • The Penguin Pool Murder

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 1 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    On a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class, a teacher discovers a dead body: "One of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives" ( The New York Times).For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Riddle of the Marble Blade

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series series Hildegarde Withers
    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 Withers Mystery! ... Read more

    $0.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers

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    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series series The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    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 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Hildegarde Withers in The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    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). ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Murder on Wheels

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 2 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    The savvy Miss Withers investigates a mysterious hanging-while-driving in this delightful addition to a classic cozy mystery series.As snow falls on the steps of the New York Public Library, a line of cars moves sluggishly down Fifth Avenue. Oblivious to the traffic, a blue Chrysler roadster tears down the street, hops the curb, and slams to a halt. The car is empty, its driver thrown half a block ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Four Lost Ladies

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 10 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    A librarian who just came into money dies in a New York hotel room, and justice is overdue: "Full of fun and delightful people. A really terrific plot" ( Chicago Daily News).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 thousands—enough to live life the way she had always wanted: with champagne, music, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Choice of Murders

    Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #7

    by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert Turner, Stephen Marlowe, Mignon G. Eberhardt, Ross Macdonald, John Basye Price, Ellery Queen, Ruthven Todd, Margaret Millar, Wenzell Brown, Robert Arthur, Anthony Gilbert, Anthony Boucher, Helen Kasson, Margaret Manners, Stuart Palmer, Lawrence G. Blochman, Andrew Garve, Marc Seymour, Lawrence Treat, James A. Kirch, Ryerson Johnson, Michael Gilbert ...
    Series Book 7 - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics
    WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE…The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s.Ross Macdonald's classic P.I. Lew ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Poison

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 13 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    When a Hollywood cartoonist is poisoned, sharp-witted sleuth Miss Withers must draw her own conclusions. "[Miss Withers is] . . . still one of the best" (Anthony Boucher).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 of the studio's famous cartoon penguin with a noose ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Once Aboard the Lugger

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    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… ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    A corrupt politician's trophy wife is targeted during a train ride: "The best of the Hildegarde Withers stories, and that is saying a good deal" ( The New York Times).Oscar Piper doesn't belong on Mexican trains. A New York City detective, he's in the Dominican Republic as part of an international delegation come to cut the ribbon on a new transcontinental highway. This grants him the honor of a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Green Ace

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    Series Book 11 - The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries
    "One of the world's shrewdest and most amusing detectives" has nine days to save an innocent man from death row ( The New York Times).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 is a blonde—beautiful, naked, and dead.She was an aspiring Miss America, minted in ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Murder on Wheels. Hildegarde Withers Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Stuart Palmer ...
    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 that may not have been an accident at all. When a wealthy automobile tycoon is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Miss Withers suspects foul play ... Read more

    $0.99 USD