Stuart Palmer (1) (1905–1968)
Autor(a) de The Penguin Pool Murder
Para outros autores com o nome Stuart Palmer, ver a página de desambiguação.
About the Author
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Séries
Obras por Stuart Palmer
Before it's too late 2 exemplares
Miss Withers y su perro 1 exemplar
Before It's Too Late... 1 exemplar
SHERLOCK HOLMES CON FALDAS - UN 1 exemplar
A Bride for the Devil 1 exemplar
Rift in the Loot [Short story] 1 exemplar
The Smiling Ghost 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contribuidor — 198 exemplares
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction (1958) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of GHOST STORIES Magazine (2000) — Autor, algumas edições — 12 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1956, Vol. 10, No. 6 (1956) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
A Choice of Murders: 23 Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of America (1958) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Stewart, Jay
Orchards, Theodore - Data de nascimento
- 1905-06-21
- Data de falecimento
- 1968-02-04
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 38
- Also by
- 33
- Membros
- 850
- Popularidade
- #30,105
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 30
- ISBN
- 110
- Línguas
- 2
Palmer then wrote over a dozen novels featuring the popular Miss Withers. He also penned a slew of short Miss Withers stories, some of them for a magazine called Mystery which was exclusive to Woolworth’s. Palmer teamed with the fabulous Craig Rice at one point, combining his Miss Withers with Rice’s hard drinking attorney/detective J.J. Malone for a collection of short stories.
Here we get five Miss Hildegarde mysteries, and they are very enjoyable. There isn’t a load of character development here, but the pacing of these rather cozy mysteries is reminiscent of the whiz-bang pulp style. Brisk and breezy in narrative and brief in length, these are perfect for bedtime when you don’t want to get into anything heavy or long. Of the five stories, I can’t say I have a definite favorite, because they are all enjoyable. Miss Withers is not endearing like her British counterparts, Miss Marple and Miss Silvers, but neither is she unlikable, and the whiz-bang pacing leaves the reader little time to be annoyed with her occasionally quick and caustic manner.
THE PUZZLE OF THE SCORNED WOMAN was first published in The New York Sunday News of 1942, so is a later Miss Withers story. Someone uses a girl’s attempted suicide to exact revenge, and Miss Withers makes some very clever deductions to solve the case. When Oscar’s nab goes south, however, it is some quick thinking by the alert school teacher that saves the day.
THE RIDDLE OF THE YELLOW CANARY was first published in 1934 in the aforementioned Mystery, the slick-papered magazine where she appeared in short form from 1933-1935. If I did perhaps have a favorite among the five stories, I’d probably have to say it was this one. A music publisher plans to get rid of a little problem he has with the help of poison, but Miss Withers, as usual miles ahead of her police pal Oscar Piper, deduces a suicide was no suicide at all. There is a lot of atmosphere in this one, from a yellow canary and a tune called May Day, to some fun business on a train as Miss Withers attempts to keep the murderer from getting away.
A FINGERPRINT IN COBALT was first published in the New York Sunday News of 1938 and starts off with a bang when an old wardrobe at an auction is discovered — quite dramatically — to contain a body. A painting, a glass sliver, and young love all come into play in this enjoyable little mystery.
THE RIDDLE OF THE DOCTOR’S DOUBLE has the grizzled but generally happy Inspector and the angular sleuth enjoying a night of music when on the stroll home they hear a scream from a window above. Toy horses, secret passages and young love all make this one another fun one.
GREEN FIRE was first published in The Chicago Tribune in 1941. A smash and grab at a jewelry store leaves an officer dead, and Oscar is in jeopardy of losing his job when the emerald ring left behind is returned for and taken by the thieves. A witness very smitten with a young copper and a crazy — literally — painter are a couple of elements adding color to this final story.
This is a very enjoyable collection of short mysteries which is a good introduction to Miss Withers for those new to Stuart Palmer’s creation, especially since it contains both early and later stories. Overall, great fun!… (mais)