num_pages: 200
description: 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 &amp; Landru Lost Classics."Includes:'The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl''The Riddle of the Flea Circus''The Riddle of the Forty Costumes''The Riddle of the Brass Band''The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders''The Riddle of Forty Naughty Girls''The Riddle of the Hanging Men''The Riddle of the Marble Blade''The Riddle of the Whirling Lights''The Riddle of the Tired Bullet'
language: English
title: Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles
titlecomplete: Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles
genres: Mystery, Short Stories
ratings_count: 25
series: Hildegarde Withers
publisher: Crippen & Landru Pub