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    THE "CANARY" MURDER CASE
    S.S. VAN DINE
    At the height if his popularity, S.S. Vane Dine pens a locked-room mystery with a lethal dose of sex and sin where infamous actress, "The Canary," is murdered in her cage after a passionate night with her lover. Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her ransacked apartment, her jewelry stolen. It appears to be...

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  • DER DRACHENTEICH: EIN FALL FÜR PHILO VANCE. KRIMINALROMAN AUS NEW YORK.
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    DER DRACHENTEICH: EIN FALL FÜR PHILO VANCE. KRIMINALROMAN AUS NEW YORK.
    S. S. VAN DINE
    Dieser Kriminalroman ist auch unter dem Namen "Der Mordfall Drachen" bekannt. Zum Inhalt: Das alte Anwesen derer von Stamm liegt zwar mitten in Manhattan, aber wegen seiner von Wäldern, Felsklippen und Steilufern gesäumten Grenzen wie auf einer einsamen Insel. Rudolph, der Hausherr, ist ein manischer Sammler seltsamen Wassergetiers, das er auf ausgedehnten Reisen durch die ganz...

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  • DER TOD IM KASINO: EIN FALL FÜR PHILO VANCE. KRIMINALROMAN AUS NEW YORK.
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    DER TOD IM KASINO: EIN FALL FÜR PHILO VANCE. KRIMINALROMAN AUS NEW YORK.
    S. S. VAN DINE
    Auszug: "Diese Geschichte beginnt mit einem Brief, der am Sonnabend, dem 15. Oktober, morgens mit der Post kam und aus zwei mit Maschine geschriebenen Seiten bestand. Ich betrachtete den Umschlag und sah, dass er in Closter, New Jersey, aufgegeben und am vorhergehenden Tag gegen zwölf Uhr mittags abgestempelt worden war. Vance hatte sich am Freitagabend lange mit seiner Lieblin...

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  • THE WINTER MURDER CASE
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    THE WINTER MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    A murder in the mountains is the latest case for the Manhattan detective famed for his "highbrow manner and parade of encyclopedic learning" ( The New York Times). Wealthy and worldly-wise detective Philo Vance has been asked to keep watch at a house party in the snowy Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he encounters an assortment of guests ranging from a treasure hunte...

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  • THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE
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    THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    The beloved 1930s comedienne becomes the famed detective's sidekick in the series that "transport[s] the reader back to a long-gone era of society" ( Mystery Scene). During a glamorous night on the town, Gracie Allen finds a dead body—and a cigarette case nearby that belongs to her date for the evening. Detective Philo Vance is on the scene, but questioning Gracie is causing mo...

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  • THE CASINO MURDER CASE
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    THE CASINO MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    Bet on this Golden Age mystery from the author of The Dragon Murder Case. "One is tempted to say that this is the best of the Philo Vance stories." — The New York Times The "tremendous popularity" of the Philo Vance series stems in part from author S. S. Van Dine's preference for ripping his plots from the headlines of the day ( The New York Times). By the early '30s, when Casi...

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  • THE DRAGON MURDER CASE
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    THE DRAGON MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    A whodunit that "presents a good puzzle, and that, according to Mr. Vance and his tens of thousands of readers, is what murder mystery books are for" ( The New York Times). No question, The Dragon Murder Case showcases Our Philo at his most supremely irritating. The book is set at a Manhattan mansion complete with picturesque pool. Into that pool dives Sanford Montague, never t...

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  • THE KENNEL MURDER CASE
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    THE KENNEL MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    A classic mystery featuring dogged detective Philo Vance. "An intricate puzzle . . . [Vance] has an uncanny insight into the subtler aspects of crime." — The New York Times Given all the rich people getting bumped off in Philo Vance's Manhattan, it's amazing there are enough left to support the symphony. Latest up: Arthur Coe, found dead in his own locked bedroom. Suicide? The ...

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  • THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
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    THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    These Egyptian hieroglyphics spell "murder." "Classic, almost textbook, golden age detective fiction. The plotting is ingenious and fiendishly convoluted." — Vintage Pop Fictions In 1922, English anthropologist Howard Carter discovered the long-hidden tomb of King Tutankhamun, and the world went Egypt-crazy. Just a few years later, New York is not immune to the craze, and even ...

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  • THE BISHOP MURDER CASE
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    THE BISHOP MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    Philo Vance unravels rhymes in a deadly key. "Without question one of Van Dine's finest achievements. . . his construction of plot is really quite superb" ( Tipping My Fedora). After solving the Greene murders, Philo Vance has taken a well-earned holiday in Switzerland. Returning to New York City he finds his old chum, District Attorney Anthony Markham, up against a bizarre ser...

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  • THE GREENE MURDER CASE
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    THE GREENE MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    "Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age" featuring amateur sleuth Philo Vance—from the author of The Canary Murder Case (Bloody Murder). Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance—the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) a...

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  • THE CANARY MURDER CASE
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    THE CANARY MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    Amateur sleuth Philo Vance returns in the bestselling Golden Age mystery that "lifted the detective story on to the plane of a fine art" (Bloody Murder). Let us begin by promising that no actual birds are harmed in this story. The Canary of the title is Margaret Odell, once a showgirl in the Ziegfeld Follies, more recently an occasional nightclub singer and professional good ti...

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  • THE BENSON MURDER CASE
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    THE BENSON MURDER CASE
    S. S. VAN DINE
    A Golden Age mystery featuring one of America's most popular detectives of page and screen, "the perfect sleuth for the Jazz Age" ( CrimeReads). New York in the 1920s is the world's most glamorous city, gleaming skyscrapers reaching for the heavens, and the hot notes of the jazz bands rising even higher. Drinking it like the finest French champagne is Philo Vance, an expert in ...

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