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The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (American Mystery Classics) by Stuart Palmer
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (American Mystery Classics) by Stuart Palmer
Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher -- with above-average skills in the art of deduction. Based in New York City, she often investigates crimes led only by her curiosity. So when a summer vacation to Los Angeles finds her working on the set of a film adaptation of the Lizzie Bordon story, and that job is interrupted by a screenwriter's death, the multi-talented Withers jumps at the opportunity to engage her favorite hobby. The local authorities quickly deem the death accidental, but Withers suspects that, alongside the fictionalized "forty whacks," someone has dealt out a whack that is all too real. And when it becomes clear that there is something sinister at work in Hollywood, she teams up with a detective from back home to catch a wily killer.
Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, this riotously funny novel is at once a pleasantly complex locked-room mystery and a hilarious look at the foibles of Hollywood.
Stuart Palmer (1905 - 1968) was an American screenwriter and mystery author, best known for his Hildegard Withers novels.
AMERICAN MYSTERY CLASSICS, SOFTCOVER, 1941, 2018
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.