Also lending a nostalgic view of an earlier New York, here the 1930s and featuring a schoolmarm sleuth, is Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles, another entry in Crippen & Landru's ...
Most of the 15 tales in this superb collection feature Palmer’s best-known creation, Hildegarde Withers, a New York City public school teacher whose acumen rivals Miss Marple’s. In the clever “The ...