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    S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939)...
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    fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular...
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  • publication the longest book printed in Albanian S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939), American art critic and author Thomas Dine, chief executive officer of the Jewish Community...
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    American pre-Code crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by S. S. Van Dine and Bartlett Cormack. The film stars William Powell, William "Stage"...
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  • The Gracie Allen Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
    The Scent of Murder) is the eleventh of twelve detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring his famous fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s, Philo...
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  • The Kennel Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
    The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel written by S. S. Van Dine with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked-room...
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  • The Winter Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
    The Winter Murder Case (1939) is a Philo Vance novella that S. S. Van Dine intended to expand into his twelfth full-length book, a project cut short by...
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    1920s by writing the Philo Vance detective novels under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine. Married at the age of seventeen, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris with...
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  • is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance, Margaret...
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  • The Kidnap Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
    The Kidnap Murder Case is a 1936 murder mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine, the tenth of twelve books featuring fictional detective Philo Vance. A member...
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