S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when writing his detective novels. Wright was an important figure in pre-World War I New York, as he wrote the immensely popular fictional detective novels starring Philo Vance, the sleuth who first appeared in books in the 1920s, and later in films and on the radio.
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“Crimes possess all the basic factors of a work of art—approach, conception, technique, imagination, attack, method, and organization.” The Benson Murder Case introduces S. S. Van Dine’s brilliant and iconic detective to the world in one of the... SEE MORE