Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landau Lost Classics)
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).Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.