Hildegarde Withers Mystery Collection

Number of Movies: 6

Overview

Adventures of school teacher Hildegarde Wither, an amateur sleuth.

Featured Cast

James Gleason

Inspector Oscar Piper

Zasu Pitts

Hildegarde Withers

Marjorie Lord

June Preston

Joan Woodbury

Rita Marlowe

Frank M. Thomas

Jeff "Pops" Plummer

Tom Kennedy

Detective Casey

Alan Edwards

Ricky Rickman

Stephen Chase

Tommy Washburn

Eddie Marr

Windy Bennett

Featured Crew

6 Movies

The Penguin Pool Murder

December 9, 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.

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

February 22, 1935

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly 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.

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

December 11, 1936

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

Forty Naughty Girls

September 24, 1937

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

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