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Philo Vance was a fictional American detective created by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s who appeared in 12 novels. Although largely forgotten today, for a few years he was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. Films about Vance were made from the late 1920s to the late '40s, and among the several actors who played him on the screen were William Powell and Basil Rathbone. Vance was portrayed as being a super-dandy, super-intellectual, and super-man-about-town in Manhattan. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ...
A detective is an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations, in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants). ...
S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939), a U.S. art critic and author. ...
Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ...
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William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 - March 5, 1984) was an American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. ...
Basil Rathbone Basil Rathbone (June 13, 1892 – July 21, 1967) was an English actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and swashbuckler film villain roles. ...
Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...
Van Dine's first three mystery novels were unusual for mystery fiction because he planned them as a trilogy but plotted and wrote them in short form, more or less at the same time. After they were accepted as a group by famed editor Maxwell Perkins, Van Dine expanded them into full-length novels. Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947) was the famous editor of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and others, at the publisher Charles Scribners Sons during the first half of the 20th Century. ...
Though Hollywood took a few liberties in its portrayal of Vance, the character in the novels would seem to most modern readers to be supercilious and highly irritating. He struck some contemporaries that way, as well. At the height of Philo Vance's popularity, comic poet Ogden Nash wrote: Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. ...
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Books featuring Philo Vance
The Benson Murder Case was the first novel in the Philo Vance series by S.S. Van Dine which became a best-seller. ...
The Canary Murder Case (1927) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as the Canary, and eventually, that of her boyfriend. ...
The Greene Murder Case is a 1928 mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine. ...
The Bishop Murder Case (1928), was commonly cited it as S. S. Van Dines best book, but seems labored and pointless today. ...
The Scarab Murder Case (1929) succeeds best as an example of S. S. Van Dines storytelling skill. ...
The Kennel Murder Case is a 1932 murder mystery novel that has a terrific first half (Chapters 1 - 10), with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex, coincidence-laden, locked room murder. ...
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The Kidnap Murder Case is a 1936 murder mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine featuring fictional detective Philo Vance. ...
The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938) is a detective novel by S. S. Van Dine featuring his famous fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s, Philo Vance. ...
The Winter Murder Case (1939) is in fact a Philo Vance novella that S. S. Van Dine intended to expand into a full length book, a project cut short by his death. ...
External links - Bibliography of UK first Editions
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