Van Dine
Americannoun
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Van Dine published rules for the genre, which John Dickson Carr—a sophisticated practitioner of the locked-room mystery—described as prejudices rather than prescriptions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Van Dine, who created some of the most brilliant mysteries of the genre.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024
“The Kidnap Murder Case” is real, simon-pure Van Dine, and that should be good enough for anybody.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
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 • Nov. 13, 2018
The canary murder case, by S. S. Van Dine, pseud.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1954 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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