Canary Murder Case - Couverture souple

Van Dine, S. S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0684164043 ISBN 13 : 9780684164045

Editeur : Scribner, 1979

Synopsis

Book by S S Van Dine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The "Canary" Murder Case' is one of Van Dine's novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as “The Canary”, is found murdered in her apartment. She has a number of men in her life, ranging from high society to gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she dies. It is Philo Vance’s characteristic erudition that leads him to a key clue that allows him to penetrate a very clever alibi and reveal the killer. “The strangeness, the daring, the seeming impenetrability of the crime marked it as one of the most singular and astonishing cases in New York’s police annals; and had it not been for Philo Vance’s participation in its solution, I firmly believe it would have remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of this country.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684164043
• ISBN 13: 9780684164045
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible