published in newspapers and mystery magazines; many of these were collected in The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers (1947), The Monkey Murder (1950), and Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles (Crippen & Landru, 2002). Outside the Hildegarde Withers series, Stuart wrote two novels about newspaperman-turned-PI Howard Rook, Unhappy Hooligan (1956) and Rook Takes Knight (1968). He also wrote a handful of science fiction and fantasy stories published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Fantastic Universe. Palmer also had a career as a Hollywood screenwriter. In 1936, he penned his first screenplay and would go on to write several others, most of them for B movies. He scripted the first three Bulldog Drummond films for Paramount and later entries in Columbia's Lone Wolf and RKO's The Falcon series. In 1954, Palmer appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx's TV show You Bet Your Life. "The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm" was a humorous Sherlock Holmes pastiche that was published in Ellery Queen's The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1944. In 1950 another pastiche, "The Adventure of the Marked Man", was published in Australian Women's Weekly; the pastiche takes the detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson to the seaside town of Penzance in Cornwall, where they investigate the strange warnings given to Allen Pendarvis and a subsequent attempt on his life. "The two pastiches, one serious and one comic, were written while Palmer was marooned at an army post in Oklahoma, where he was serving as an instructor.…." Stuart Palmer also wrote "The Mystery of David Lang" for Fate Magazine. It wasn't until long after Palmer's death that the affidavits, testifying to the truth of the story and signed by David Lang's daughter and the local justice of the peace, were actually in Mr. Palmer's handwriting (including the signatures). Palmer served for one year as president of the Mystery Writers of America. Bibliography As Theodore Richards The Gargoyle's Throat (1930) As Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers series The Penguin Pool Murder (1931) Murder on Wheels (1932) Murder on the Blackboard (1932) The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree (1934), serialized, Los Angeles Times (1934) The Puzzle of the Silver Persian (1935), serialized, Los Angeles Times (1934) The Puzzle of the Red Stallion (1935) aka The Puzzle of the Briar Pipe (1936), serialized, Chicago Tribune (1935) The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla (1937) The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan (1941) The Riddles of