Willard Huntington Wright
S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre–World War I New York, and under the pen name he created the fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in films and on the radio.
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The winter murder case
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1939
The Gracie Allen murder case
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1938
The Kidnap Murder Case
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1936
The garden murder case
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1935
The Casino Murder Case
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1934
The kennel murder case
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1933
The dragon murder case, a Philo Vance story
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1933
The scarab murder case
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1930
The Greene Murder Case
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1928
The "Canary" Murder Case
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1927
The Benson murder case
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1926
The Bishop murder case
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1900