The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan: A Hildegarde Withers Mystery by Stuart Palmer

Description: The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer, Otto Penzler After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer.Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacherwith above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD dont mind when she solves their cases for them. After plans for a grand tour of Europe are interrupted by Germanys invasion of Poland, Miss Withers heads to sunny Los Angeles instead, where her vacation finds her working as a technical advisor on the set of a film adaptation of the Lizzie Borden story. The producer has plans for an epic retelling of the historical killers patricidal spreeplans which are derailed when a screenwriter turns up dead. While the local authorities quickly deem his death accidental, Withers suspects otherwise and calls up a detective back home for advice. The two soon team up to catch a wily killer.At once a pleasantly complex locked room mystery and a hilarious look at the foibles of Hollywood, The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan finds Palmer, a screenwriter himself, at his most perceptive. Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, this riotously funny novel shows why Hildegarde Withers was among the most beloved detectives of the Golden Age American mystery novel. Author Biography Stuart Palmer (1905–1968) was an American author of mysteries. Born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, Palmer worked a number of odd jobs—including apple picking, journalism, and copywriting—before publishing his first novel, the crime drama Ace of Jades, in 1931. It was with his second novel, however, that he established his writing career: The Penguin Pool Murder introduced Hildegarde Withers, a schoolmarm who, on a field trip to the New York Aquarium, discovers a dead body in the pool. Withers was an immensely popular character, and went on to star in thirteen more novels, including Miss Withers Regrets (1947) and Nipped in the Bud (1951). A master of intricate plotting, Palmer found success writing for Hollywood, where several of his books, including The Penguin Pool Murder, were filmed by RKO Pictures Inc.Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975), a literary crime imprint now associated with Grove/Atlantic; Mysterious Press.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York Citys Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction. Review "Entertaining, original." -- Kirkus"The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan is a book that will keep you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last." -- The New York Times Review Quote "The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan is a book that will keep you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last." Details ISBN1613161042 Author Otto Penzler Pages 216 Publisher Penzler Publishers ISBN-10 1613161042 ISBN-13 9781613161043 Format Paperback Imprint Penzler Publishers Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 813.52 Language English Short Title The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan Subtitle A Hildegarde Withers Mystery Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-01-15 UK Release Date 2019-01-15 AU Release Date 2019-01-15 NZ Release Date 2019-01-15 US Release Date 2019-01-15 Series An American Mystery Classic Alternative 9781613161142 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161827518;

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