The Philo Vance Megapack. S.S. Van Dine

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      COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Philo Vance Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. Cover art © ysbrandcosijn /Fotolia. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher.

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      The 12 novels in this series originally appeared as follows:

      The Benson Murder Case (1926)

      The “Canary” Murder Case (1927)

      The Greene Murder Case (1928)

      The Bishop Murder Case (1928)

      The Scarab Murder Case (1930)

      The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

      The Dragon Murder Case (1933)

      The Casino Murder Case (1934)

      The Garden Murder Case (1935)

      The Kidnap Murder Case (1936)

      The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938)

      The Winter Murder Case (1939)

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      Philo Vance is a fictional character featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright), published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent. The novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine—who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books as well as the author.

      The entire series runs to 12 volumes, of which all are included here. Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, this Megapack is only available for sale outside of the United States.

      The series consists of:

      The Benson Murder Case (1926)

      The “Canary” Murder Case (1927)

      The Greene Murder Case (1928)

      The Bishop Murder Case (1928)

      The Scarab Murder Case (1930)

      The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

      The Dragon Murder Case (1933)

      The Casino Murder Case (1934)

      The Garden Murder Case (1935)

      The Kidnap Murder Case (1936)

      The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938)

      The Winter Murder Case (1939)

      To round out this volume, we also include a bonus essay, “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories,” by the author.

      —John Betancourt

      Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

      www.wildsidepress.com

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