- Philo Vance (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Murder, Investigation
The gloomy Greene mansion in New York is the scene of a double tragedy. The eldest sister is shot and killed; the youngest, a sister by adoption, is wounded by an unknown intruder. While Philo Vance and his friend Markham the district attorney are working on the case, the two Greene brothers are killed.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- August 1, 1980
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- C. Scribner's Sons, Felony & Mayhem, LLC, Scribner Paper Fiction
- Editions
- 88
- Language
- Chinese, German, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9781080706082
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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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