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Nov 29, 2023 · Vance’s erudition became displayed more and more in large and often gratuitous segments that slowed down the tales, and the snob appeal wore thin. By 1939, when Van Dine died, both he and Vance had worn out their welcome, and Van Dine–style stories had been largely replaced by the “hard-boiled” realism of Hammett and others.
Aug 16, 2022 · Willard Huntington Wright – S.S. Van Dine – passed away in New York in April 1939, fifty years of age. His lasting legacy is Philo Vance, and hopefully this re-issue will bring Van Dine‘s work to new generations of readers. Vance really is one of a kind, don‘t y‘ know …. –Ragnar Jonasson.
S・S・ヴァン・ダイン （S. S. Van Dine, 1888年 10月15日 - 1939年 4月11日 ）は、 アメリカ合衆国 の 推理作家 ・美術評論家。. 本名は ウィラード・ハンティントン・ライト (Willard Huntington Wright)。. 名探偵 ファイロ・ヴァンス (Philo Vance) を生み出した。.
"The first and best, partly because Van Dine had the real-life model of the Joseph Elwell murder (1920) to hold his fancy in check." "Vance spots the murderer almost immediately but doesn't reveal him, allowing Markham and Sergeant Heath to fix the guilt on five successive persons by circumstantial evidence." Film adaptations
The Dragon Murder Case is the seventh novel featuring Van Dine's Philo Vance character. Some critics saw this as marking a significant change in the series, including crime novelist Julian Symons who wrote, "The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them 'one more stitch in his literary shroud' was not overstating the case."
The Scarab Murder Case, 1930, by S.S. Van Dine. 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.
Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard Haycraft to have broken "all modern publishing records for detective fiction." [1] The earliest editions give the title with quotation marks around the word "Canary", but most subsequent editions omit them.
