Stuart Palmer

Once Aboard the Lugger

Stuart Palmer

Curtain rises on a lonely deserted dock on the Long Beach waterfront, where the schooner Carma has just been moored that afternoon. The date is December 6, 1932; the hour 9:30 of a dank and dripping evening. The scene is set for murder…

Hildegarde Withers in The Riddle of the Blueblood Murders

Stuart Palmer

Spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Oscar Piper are on the case of murder among the dog breeders, in a case reminiscent of S.S. Van Dine's «The Kennel Murder Case» (1933).