Stuart Palmer

The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

It's murder on a film set...

'Will keep you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last' NEW YORK TIMES

Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher but with above-average skills in the art of deduction. She often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD don't mind when she solves their cases for them. After plans for a grand tour of Europe are interrupted by Germany's invasion of Poland, Miss Withers heads to 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.

But the producer's plans for an epic retelling of the historical killer's murder-spree are derailed when a screenwriter turns up dead...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781471920868
• Artikelnr.: 61200648

Autorenporträt

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.