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Cold Poison
Cold Poison
Author: Stuart Palmer
Forced to retire to Southern California due to her asthma, spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers is called in to investigate some nasty valentines sent to workers in a Hollywood studio that produces cartoons starring Peter Penguin. — When one of the recipients of the valentines is murdered in a most unusual way, Hildegarde telephones her old cohort ...  more »
ISBN: 140412
Publication Date: 7/1964
Pages: 143
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Publisher: Pyramid Books
Book Type: Paperback
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WhidbeyIslander avatar reviewed Cold Poison on + 691 more book reviews
A later entry in the Hildegarde Withers series, this is not as satisfying as many of the older ones. While reading I kept thinking it was waaayy too drawn out (then I noticed it is a longer version of a story Palmer wrote called "A Valentine for the Victim.")

The setting -- a cartoon studio -- is interesting, but it does go on a bit too long (and it's less than 150 pages!), although the scene where the killer is unmasked was pretty interesting.

An okay read for fans of the series.


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