This carefully crafted ebook: "MURDER MYSTERIES - S.S. Van Dine Edition: 12 Detective Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Philo Vance is a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York dilettante and bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent he likes to use for solving some quite complicated crimes. His methods are unusual and often in contradiction to the firm police rules and official requirements, but his wit always gets him a step further. Philo Vance novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine, who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books.Table of Contents:IntroductionTwenty Rules for Writing Detective StoriesThe Philo Vance SeriesThe Benson Murder CaseThe Canary Murder CaseThe Greene Murder CaseThe Bishop Murder CaseThe Scarab Murder CaseThe Kennel Murder CaseThe Dragon Murder CaseThe Casino Murder CaseThe Garden Murder CaseThe Kidnap Murder CaseThe Gracie Allen Murder CaseThe Winter Murder CaseS. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. He was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance.

This carefully crafted ebook: "MURDER MYSTERIES - S.S. Van Dine Edition: 12 Detective Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Philo Vance is a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York dilettante and bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent he likes to use for solving some quite complicated crimes. His methods are unusual and often in contradiction to the firm police rules and official requirements, but his wit always gets him a step further. Philo Vance novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine, who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books.Table of Contents:IntroductionTwenty Rules for Writing Detective StoriesThe Philo Vance SeriesThe Benson Murder CaseThe Canary Murder CaseThe Greene Murder CaseThe Bishop Murder CaseThe Scarab Murder CaseThe Kennel Murder CaseThe Dragon Murder CaseThe Casino Murder CaseThe Garden Murder CaseThe Kidnap Murder CaseThe Gracie Allen Murder CaseThe Winter Murder CaseS. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. He was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance.

This carefully crafted ebook: "MURDER MYSTERIES - S.S. Van Dine Edition: 12 Detective Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Philo Vance is a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York dilettante and bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent he likes to use for solving some quite complicated crimes. His methods are unusual and often in contradiction to the firm police rules and official requirements, but his wit always gets him a step further. Philo Vance novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine, who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books.Table of Contents:IntroductionTwenty Rules for Writing Detective StoriesThe Philo Vance SeriesThe Benson Murder CaseThe Canary Murder CaseThe Greene Murder CaseThe Bishop Murder CaseThe Scarab Murder CaseThe Kennel Murder CaseThe Dragon Murder CaseThe Casino Murder CaseThe Garden Murder CaseThe Kidnap Murder CaseThe Gracie Allen Murder CaseThe Winter Murder CaseS. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. He was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance.