Stuart Palmer
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Stuart Palmer is a mathematics teacher with 25 years of experience teaching boys and girls in 5 very diverse schools and has taught all of the current New South Wales Mathematics courses in Stages 4, 5 and 6 numerous times. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics) and Diploma of Education from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Canberra in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Stuart has been a Head of Department in 2 schools for 14 years and is currently working with pre-service mathematics teachers at the University of Sydney, Australia. [Source
Books
Four Lost Ladies
Pour les amateurs de logique et de tactique, un roman criminel de 1949 qui est vraiment un bon "puzzle" dont l'auteur nous fournit toutes les pièces. Mais, quant à les rassembler, c'est tout un sport auquel excelle l'inénarrable Hildegarde Withers, célibataire dure, mûre et sûre. Notons que cette demoiselle-détective figure dans quatorze romans ou recueils dont on a tiré sept films. [SDM].
Murder on the Blackboard
Murder mystery featuring Hildegarde Withers. First published 1932.
The Sport of crime
Nineteen tales of mystery & murder set in the world of sports. The man who pretended to like baseball / Isaac Asimov Diamond Dick / Jon L. Breen A game of chess / Robert Barr Coffin corner / Anthony Boucher The great rodeo fix / Leo R. Ellis The sailing club / David Ely The season ticket holder / Joyce Harrington The last downhill / Clark Howard The other runner / John Lutz Storm / Ed McBain Dead on the pin / John D. MacDonald The affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co., Limited" / Arthur Morrison Tomorrow's murder / Stuart Palmer Trojan horse / Ellery Queen The return of Cardula / Jack Ritchie This won't kill you / Rex Stout Murder on the race course / Julian Symons The hustler / Walter S. Tevis Without the option / P. G. Wodehouse
Senior Sleuths
Cold Poison
Hildegarde Withers pursues a poisoner in the mad world of Hollywood. Murder mystery featuring Hildegarde Withers. First published 1954. The cartoon studio setting is said to be based on the Walter Lantz animation studio, which produced the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
The Detective Story
Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities. Contains: Edgar Allan Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The purloined letter -- The gold bug -- Arthur Conan Doyle Study in scarlet (excerpts) -- Final Problem [Adventure of the Empty House]( The American Sherlock Holmes: Ellery Queen The telltale bottle -- My queer dean! -- The adventure of the president's half dome -- The others: The problem of cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle -- The invisible man by G.K. Chesterton -- The mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie -- The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy Sayers -- Mr. Strang performs an experiment by William Brittain -- There were female sleuths before women's liberation: Locked doors by Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Village murders by Agatha Christie -- You bet your life by Stuart Palmer -- Mom and the haunted mink by James Yaffe -- Variations: In the heat of the night (excerpts) by John [Dudley] Ball -- The world series murder by Rex Stout -- The day the children vanished by Hugh Pentecost -- The stolen cigar case by Bret Harte.
Big Apple Mysteries
The good Samaritan / Issac Asimov The imprtance of trifles / Avram Davidson The theft of the four of spades / Edward D. Hoch Pattern for murder / Frances and Richard Lockridge Green ice / Stuart Palmer Murder in one scene / Q. Patrick Jericho and the studio murders / Hugh Pentecost The adventure of the one-penny black / Ellery Queen From another world / Clayton Rawson The Crime Of the Century / R. L. Stevens Murder Is No Joke / Rex Stout The Phantom of the Subway / Cornell Woolrich Mom in the Spring / James Yaffe
The puzzle of the happy hooligan
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.
The penguin pool murder
Murder mystery featuring Hildegarde Withers. First published 1931. The transformation of a prim schoolteacher into an amateur sleuth begins with a school visit to the New York Aquarium.
Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense
The adventure of the Sussex vampire / by Arthur Conan Doyle The blue geranium / by Agatha Christie The stolen Rubens / by Jacques Futrelle Ask me another / by Frank Gruber The riddle of the yellow canary / by Stuart Palmer Sweating it out with Dover / by Joyce Porter.