The Penguin Pool Murder — Stuart Palmer

Death on Display

Miss Hildegarde withers comes to the New York Aquarium to see the Galapagos penguins--not a corpse. But there, floating before her very eyes, grotesquely out of place, is the late Gerald Lester, Will Street broker. Inspector Piper of NYPD's Homicide deduces that this is "a mawkish love triangle." Miss Withers agrees it is a case of murder, but not a triangular one. There are many more dark corners to explore.

Who did Lester's beautiful wife meet behind the stairs?

What did a pickpocket see?

How did Miss Withers's hatpin become a lethal weapon?

Who is the suspect in the fancy Fedora?

Miss Withers applies her sharp eye for clues and keen ear for lies to unravel a web of deceit that stretches from the scene of the crime to wall Street. Sorting through a school of red herrings, she triumphantly makes the catch of the day in this baffling case of murder most fishy.