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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.
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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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- PublisherCrippen & Landru Pub
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1885941854
- ISBN 13 9781885941855
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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HILDEGARDE WITHERS: UNCOLLECTED RIDDLES **Lost Classics Ser.)
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Crippen & Landru, Publishers, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.
(2002)
ISBN 10: 1885941854
ISBN 13: 9781885941855
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Cross, Gail (illustrator). First Edition. 1st prtg. Trade Paperback edition published simultaneously with the hardcover The fourth volume in the Lost Classic Series. The publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies, divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket, and trade softcover." Eleven stories with a checklist of Hildegarde Withers short stories. 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. Book. Seller Inventory # 020744
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