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    Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance...
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  • featuring private detective Philo Vance. Vance investigates the murders of a newly engaged couple. William Wright as Philo Vance Vivian Austin as Lorena Blendon...
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  • Calling Philo Vance is a 1940 American mystery/comedy film released by Warner Bros. and starring James Stephenson as the dilettante detective Philo Vance, his...
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    originally used to conceal his identity) he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then...
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    Command (1928). His first starring role was Philo Vance in The Canary Murder Case (1929). He played Vance at Paramount Pictures four times. His strong...
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  • Montgomery's Rainbow Valley Nell Vance, in the movie The Haunting Philo Vance, detective in several novels by S. S. Van Dine Victor Vance, from the video game Grand...
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    was billed above Warren William (the actor then portraying Philo Vance in the series of Vance films), and without Burns. The result was so successful that...
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    The Greene Murder Case (category Philo Vance novels)
    third in the series of Philo Vance whodunits, and the first of the Vance books not inspired by a real-life crime. Philo Vance takes a hand when, one evening...
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  • Philo Vance's Gamble is a 1947 American mystery film directed by Basil Wrangell and starring Alan Curtis, Vivian Austin and Tala Birell. It was the first...
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  • The Kennel Murder Case (category Philo Vance novels)
    murder mystery novel written by S. S. Van Dine with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked-room mystery. One of the Coe brothers...
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