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Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen Landau Lost Classics)
Hildegarde Withers Uncollected Riddles - Crippen Landau Lost Classics Author:Stuart Palmer 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 sli... more »ck-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."« less