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S.S. Van Dine, pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), was an American critic, editor, and the author of a series of best-selling detective novels featuring the brilliant but arrogant upper-class sleuth Philo Vance. All but two of the twelve Philo Vance mysteries were adapted as feature films, and his writings on the craft of detective fiction were also immensely popular.
“The author mystifies the reader, more and more so as the book ingeniously progresses” —New York Times “A tale fine enough to serve as a model for writers of the Mystery story...never before have you read of a crime so baffling, so devilishly ingenious!...Genius has once more been turned loose in the field of detective fiction!” —Shawnee News-Star “The reader is gripped from the first page to the last” —Montclair Times “The author mystifies the reader, more and more so as the book ingeniously progresses” —New York Times “Lifted the detective story onto the plane of a fine art” —Bloody Murder
