LEADER 00000cam 22004098i 4500 001 sky294819026 003 SKY 005 20190603123701.0 008 181119t20191966meu ed 000 1 eng 010 2018055247 020 9781432862893 020 1432862898 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dDLC|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 082 00 813/.52|223 092 |fF|aPALMER 100 1 Palmer, Stuart,|d1905-1968,|eauthor. 245 14 THE PUZZLE OF THE HAPPY HOOLIGAN /|cby Stuart Palmer. 250 Large print edition. 263 1904 264 1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,|c2019. 264 4 |c©1966 300 301 pages (large print) ;|c23 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 340 |nlarge print|2rda 490 1 Thorndike Press large print mystery 520 "Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher -- with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD don't mind when she solves their cases for them. After plans for a grand tour of Europe are interrupted by Germany's invasion of Poland, Miss Withers heads to sunny Los Angeles instead, where her vacation finds her working as a technical advisor on the set of a film adaptation of the Lizzie Borden story. The producer has plans for an epic retelling of the historical killer's patricidal spree -- plans which are derailed when a screenwriter turns up dead. While the local authorities quickly deem his death accidental, Withers suspects otherwise and calls up a detective back home for advice. The two soon team up to catch a wily killer. At once a pleasantly complex locked room mystery and a hilarious look at the foibles of Hollywood, The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan finds Palmer, a screenwriter himself, at his most perceptive. Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, this riotously funny novel shows why Hildegarde Withers was among the most beloved detectives of the Golden Age American mystery novel." --|cFrom publisher's description. 650 0 Withers, Hildegarde (Fictitious character)|vFiction. 650 0 Large type books. 655 0 Large type books. 655 7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 655 7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 830 0 Thorndike Press large print mystery series.
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