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Van Dine

American  
[van dahyn] / væn ˈdaɪn /

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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, he adds that it invites the reader to employ “a high degree of logical reasoning.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2015

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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