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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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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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 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 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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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 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 Benson Murder Case (category Novels by S. S. Van Dine)
Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine, which became a best-seller. New York dilettante Philo Vance decides...
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