- Philo Vance (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Fiction, Large type books
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- August 22, 2006
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Felony & Mayhem, LLC, C. Scribner's Sons, Scribner Paper Fiction
- Editions
- 86
- Language
- Chinese, German, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781656218322
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S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-World War I New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.
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