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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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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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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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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The Greene Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
The Greene Murder Case is a 1928 mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine. It focuses on the murders, one by one, of members of the wealthy and contentious Greene...
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The Canary Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
"the Canary," and, eventually, her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard...
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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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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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