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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The Almost Perfect Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine is a classic Golden Age detective story that combines intellectual puzzle-solving with a meticulously constructed crime. Known for his creation of the brilliant amateur sleuth Philo Vance, Van Dine delivers... SEE MORE