- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Vance, philo (fictitious character), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
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Classical in form, cool, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Holiday House, Scribner
- Editions
- 82
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798631945180
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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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