Van Dine
Americannoun
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Van Dine, who created some of the most brilliant mysteries of the genre.
From Los Angeles Times
Van Dine’s first Philo Vance mystery, “The Benson Murder Case” and Cornell Woolrich’s suspense-filled, “Deadline at Dawn,” and our own Library of Congress’s Crime Classics program has reissued novels as varied as Rudolph Fisher’s pioneering African American mystery, “The Conjure-Man Dies,” and Hillary Waugh’s genre-establishing police procedural, “Last Seen Wearing.”
From Washington Post
“The Kidnap Murder Case” is real, simon-pure Van Dine, and that should be good enough for anybody.
From New York Times
Van Dine, whose cosmopolitan Philo Vance is a more effete version of Lord Peter Wimsey; Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled “Red Harvest,” which features the Continental Op; and the gangster classic, W.R.
From Washington Post
Van Dine, he adds that it invites the reader to employ “a high degree of logical reasoning.”
From Washington Post
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