Hildegarde Withers Mysteries: The Penguin Pool Murder (Paperback)

from smik

Great pains have been taken in the production of this audio book through accents and the like to emphasise both the New York setting of this story and the period in which it is set, just after the Wall street crash. I found the premise of an NYPD detective in investigative partnership with a spin...

from kaulsu

Interesting to read a mystery dated 1931. Besides the utter lack of technology, the reader gets a peek at how offices were run, the implicit racism of the day ("little black Abraham"), and gender bias to name a few startling commonplaces. The plot itself is so rife with possible motives, opportun...

from jetangen4571

Reminds me of the fun in the old mystery films from the thirties, well, it takes place just after The Crash, and was published in 1931. Miss Withers is believable, and a young Kate Hepburn would have done justice to her snarks and take-charge attitude. The cigar chewing detective who is smart eno...

from MrsLee

Funny in these mysteries, in the last Golden Age mystery I read, an unmarried woman of 65 or 64 was considered an elderly, delicate lady. In this one, a "spinster" of 39 is considered past her prime and middle-aged. Now-a-days, a woman of 39 is just coming into her own and a woman in her 60's is ...