Stuart Palmer

Although the Stock Market had crashed recently, it was too early for most people to predict that the Great Depression was about to get underway....

No use to scream. No use at all. One of the proudest boasts of the Hotel Grandee was that its thousand rooms were all completely soundproof....

Hildegarde Withers, schoolteacher and amateur detective, stumbles onto the corpse of Jefferson Grammar School's attractive young music teacher....

Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up....

Miss Hildegarde Winters, accompanied by her poodle, Talleyrand, is ready, willing, and able when nasty valentines upset a cartoon studio....

When pretty little Ina Kell arrived in Manhattan full of foolish dreams about making it big in show business, she had no idea how quickly she’d be in the headlines....

Hildegarde Withers heads down Mexico way where the death in the afternoon involves neither a matador nor a bull....

Thick flakes of snow are falling on Fifth Avenue at twilight - and then the body of a young man suddenly falls among them, mysteriously out of the sky....

Top model Violet Feverel should be a pretty picture riding the big red thoroughbred Siwash - but the front page photo on the tabloids is ugly as death....

Crusty schoolteacher/sleuth Hildegarde Withers can't escape mysterious deaths, even on a trans-Atlantic crossing on an ocean liner....

Stuart Palmer’s story of a grisly joke played on some unloving and hopeful relatives gathered together for the holidays....