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Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish— dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent.
Philo Vance, fictional amateur detective, the protagonist of 12 detective stories by American writer S.S. Van Dine. A wealthy American graduate of the University of Oxford, Vance is a cultivated but snobbish man of wide-ranging interests and talents.
May 24, 2007 · Philo Vance was the detective creation of S. S. Van Dine first published in the mid 1920s. Vance, in the original books, is an intellectual so highly refined he seems he might be ghostwritten by P. G. Wodehouse.
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.
Philo Vance Series by S.S. Van Dine. 12 primary works • 24 total works. New York 1925-1935: Mystery Novels, Golden Age. Book 1. The Benson Murder Case. by S.S. Van Dine. 3.46 · 1,425 Ratings · 230 Reviews · published 1926 · 199 editions. The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the P… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The Canary Murder Case.
The Philo Vance Murder Cases series is a well-known series of mystery, historical fiction, detective fiction, and crime fiction novels. It is written by a popular American writer named Willard Huntington Wright under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine.
Drinking it like the finest French champagne is Philo Vance, an expert in art with the deepest pockets, the brainiest brains, and the most gloriously ludicrous pretentions in the history of crime fiction.
