On vacation in Hollywood, Miss Withers gets a joband a casein a mystery "that will keep you laughing and guessing from the first page to the last" (The New York Times).
On her first day at Mammoth Studios, the screenwriter in the next office dies of an apparent broken neck. To understand why, Miss Withers must contend with a film producer who makes her third graders look like grown-upsand a killer every bit as vicious as Lizzie Borden herself.
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes The Penguin Pool Murder and Murder on the Blackboard.