- Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Philo Vance (Fictitious character), Private investigators
Philo Vance Mystery #10 Follows the disappearance of playboy Kaspar Kenting and the investigations of the detective Philo Vance who sorts through the clues of an apparent kidnapping, uncovering a family secret in the process.
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- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Felony & Mayhem, LLC, Lian pu chu ban, Charles Scribner
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781976555404
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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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