Friday, January 07, 2011

More Hildegarde Withers from Rue Morgue Press.

Edna May Oliver, who
played Hildegarde Withers
in three films, NYPL
Rue Morgue Press has just issued another volume in the series featuring Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers, Murder on the Blackboard (1932), in which the inquisitive schoolteacher-sleuth goes on a hunt for a peripatetic corpse. This book joins other Rue Morgue reissues in the Withers series: The Penguin Pool Murder, Miss Withers Regrets, Nipped in the Bud, The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla, The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree, and The Puzzle of the Silver Persian.

1 comment:

Yvette said...

I've been meaning to try and find these books. Thanks for the reminder. I want to read one or two or three for the Vintage Mystery Challenge.