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S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) [2] is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels.
The Philo Vance series written by author S.S. Van Dine is comprised of 12 books in total published between 1926 and 1939. Each of the novels of this series is based on a different murder case and features Philo Vance as the chief investigator in all of the cases.
S.S. Van Dine was an American critic, editor, and author of a series of best-selling detective novels featuring the brilliant but arrogant sleuth Philo Vance. Wright was educated at St. Vincent and Pomona colleges in California, at Harvard University, and in Munich and Paris.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
When not hobnobbing with his personal lawyer Van Dine whom he calls “Van,” or helping New York District Attorney John F.X. Markham, and the bluff, boneheaded Sergeant Heath of the homicide department keep their jobs, Vance spends his time studying art and aesthetics.
Aug 8, 2021 · S.S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by Willard Huntington Wright when writing detective novels. For the larger proportion of his life he lived, worked and wrote as Wright.
S.S. Van Dine is the author of The Benson Murder Case (3.46 avg rating, 1433 ratings, 232 reviews, published 1926), The Bishop Murder Case (3.62 avg rati...
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