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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.
S.S. Van Dine (born Oct. 15, 1888, Charlottesville, Va., U.S.—died April 11, 1939, New York, N.Y.) was an American critic, editor, and author of a series of best-selling detective novels featuring the brilliant but arrogant sleuth Philo Vance.
The Philo Vance series written by author S.S. Van Dine is comprised of 12 books in total published between 1926 and 1939. Each of the novels of this series is based on a different murder case and features Philo Vance as the chief investigator in all of the cases.
Jan 10, 2019 · 1. The reader must have equal opportunity with the detective for solving the mystery. All clues must be plainly stated and described. 2. No willful tricks or deceptions...
S.S. Van Dine has 114 books on Goodreads with 17670 ratings. S.S. Van Dine’s most popular book is The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1).
In all of mystery, no major writer has fallen from grace as completely as S.S. Van Dine, the creator of Philo Vance. In the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Van Dine was one of the most popular and successful writers around, in or out of the mystery genre.
S.S. Van Dine is the author of The Benson Murder Case (3.46 avg rating, 1412 ratings, 229 reviews, published 1926), The Bishop Murder Case (3.62 avg rati...
