Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection
Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection
Adventures of school teacher Hildegarde Wither, an amateur sleuth.

Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

09 December, 1932
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

15 June, 1934
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.

Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

22 February, 1935
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.

Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)

17 April, 1936
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.

The Plot Thickens (1936)

11 December, 1936
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

Forty Naughty Girls (1937)

24 September, 1937
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.