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The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (Hildegarde Withers)
The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla - Hildegarde Withers Author:Stuart Palmer Inspector Oscar Piper was off on a junket to Mexico in the summer of 1937 when a customs inspector on a train headed for Mexico City sniffs a very potent bottle of cheap perfume and promptly drops dead. Quite naturally, Oscar telegraphs Hildegarde Withers in Manhattan about the perfume and quite naturally she packs her bags and heads south of th... more »e border., figuring Oscar is out of his depth if he has to rely on deductive reasoning rather than a rubber hose. Why any of the occupants of the train would want to kill a harmless Mexican customs inspector is so puzzling that everyone assumes the real intended victim is a self-made rich American woman who seemingly has rededicated her life to shopping.« less