A corrupt politicians trophy wife is targeted during a train ride: The best of the Hildegarde Withers stories, and that is saying a good deal (The New York Times).

Oscar Piper doesnt belong on Mexican trains. A New York City detective, hes in the Dominican Republic as part of an international delegation come to cut the ribbon on a new transcontinental highway. This grants him the honor of a trip to Mexico City on the hottest, dustiest train in North Americaa crowded slow coach thats about to become a crime scene.

The aldermans wife does not know how the bottle of Elixir dAmour got into her bag. She only knows that when the porter smelled it, he dropped dead. She seems to have been the intended target for the poisoned perfumebut who would want to kill a corrupt politicians trophy wife? Oscar sends a wire to his friend Hildegarde Withers, a schoolteacher and amateur sleuth, whom he knows will not wilt in the Mexican heat. Before she begins her investigation, she has only one question: ¿Cómo se dice murder?

The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes The Penguin Pool Murder and Murder on the Blackboard.

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The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla

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