Hildegarde Dolson

What a family! There's Mother, who loves to paint -- she even paints flowers on Hildegarde's new hat! There's little Jimmy, whose favorite position is upside down... and Cousin Arthur, who lives in a Moose Hall. And there's Hildegarde herself: everything happens to her! A true story of a happy-go-lucky girl and her impossibly funny family... from her growing up in a small town to her first big city job.

Humorous essays on fads in false hair, Dr. Spock, Walter Lippmann, Eating teen-agers, and many other topics.

When the wife of "the nicest guy in town" is poisoned at a party and a blackmailer is strangled and thrust into a drawer of the Thrift Shop, the village of Wingate, Connecticut, buzzes over a jampot of scandal. Lively widow Lucy, mistress of fine cuisine, is the sleuthing civilian counterpart of divorced Inspector McDougal, who likes to eat well.