The Dragon Murder Case

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473379824

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The Dragon Murder Case (A Philo Vance Detective Story) by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Dragon Murder Case' is one of Van Dine's novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798674673286

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

The Dragon Murder Case is a novel in a series by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted to a film version in 1934, starring Warren William as Vance. A guest at an estate in northern Manhattan dives into the swimming pool and disappears. A guest at Inwood Hill Park, an estate in northern Manhattan, dives into the swimming pool and disappears. Has a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent anythin g to do with the murder? Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate and solve the case.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632698023

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651539297

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The Dragon Murder Case by Willard Huntington Wright Pdf

Author : Willard Huntington Wright,
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983836338

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The Dragon Murder Case by Willard Huntington Wright, Pdf

Even in 1933 New York, the Stamm mansion was an anomaly--an estate in Inwood surrounded by woods. One hot night, members of a house party go for a swim. A young man dives into the pool--and disappears. Old Mrs. Stamm is mentally disturbed, but her repeated claims that a dragon lives in the pool and is responsible for the young man's death resonates sharply with the others in the house. Even the usually stolid police are disturbed by the atmosphere. Only Philo Vance, for all his talk about dragons, is able to cut through to the heart of the mystery

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548918431

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

A guest at Inwood Hill Park, an estate in northern Manhattan, dives into the swimming pool and disappears. Has a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent anythin g to do with the murder? Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate and solve the case. American art critic Willard Huntington Wright, under the pseudonym of Dine when he wrote detective novels, was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym (which he originally used to conceal his identity) he created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, a sleuth and aesthete who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798695136562

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

That sinister and terrifying crime, which came to be known as the dragon murder case, will always be associated in my mind with one of the hottest summers I have ever experienced in New York.Philo Vance, who stood aloof from the eschatological and supernatural implications of the case, and was therefore able to solve the problem on a purely rationalistic basis, had planned a fishing trip to Norway that August, but an intellectual whim had caused him to cancel his arrangements and to remain in America. Since the influx of post-war, nouveau-riche Americans along the French and Italian Rivieras, he had forgone his custom of spending his summers on the Mediterranean, and had gone after salmon and trout in the streams of North Bergenhus. But late in July of this particular year his interest in the Menander fragments found in Egypt during the early years of this century, had revived, and he set himself to complete their translation--a work which, you may recall, had been interrupted by that amazing series of Mother-Goose murders in West 75th Street.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1798628104

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The Dragon Murder Case: Large Print by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

A guest at Inwood Hill Park, an estate in northern Manhattan, dives into the swimming pool and disappears. Has a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent anythin g to do with the murder? Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate and solve the case.

Author : S. S. van Dine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986765679

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. van Dine Pdf

A guest at Inwood Hill Park, an estate in northern Manhattan, dives into the swimming pool and disappears. Has a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent anythin g to do with the murder? Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate and solve the case. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438794649

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

Author : S. S. Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798734080146

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Dine Pdf

A guest at Inwood Hill Park, an estate in northern Manhattan, dives into the swimming pool and disappears. Has a mythological dragon which is said to prey on the imprudent anythin g to do with the murder? Philo Vance uses his knowledge of both dragons and criminals to demonstrate and solve the case.

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798646799280

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The Dragon Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

That sinister and terrifying crime, which came to be known as the dragon murder case, will always be associated in my mind with one of the hottest summers I have ever experienced in New York.Philo Vance, who stood aloof from the eschatological and supernatural implications of the case, and was therefore able to solve the problem on a purely rationalistic basis, had planned a fishing trip to Norway that August, but an intellectual whim had caused him to cancel his arrangements and to remain in America. Since the influx of post-war, nouveau-riche Americans along the French and Italian Rivieras, he had forgone his custom of spending his summers on the Mediterranean, and had gone after salmon and trout in the streams of North Bergenhus. But late in July of this particular year his interest in the Menander fragments found in Egypt during the early years of this century, had revived, and he set himself to complete their translation--a work which, you may recall, had been interrupted by that amazing series of Mother-Goose murders in West 75th Street.However, once again this task of research and love was rudely intruded upon by one of the most baffling murder mysteries in which Vance ever participated; and the lost comedies of Menander were again pigeon-holed for the intricate ratiocination of crime. Personally I think Vance's criminal investigations were closer to his heart than the scholastic enterprises on which he was constantly embarking, for though his mind was ever seeking out abstruse facts in the realm of cultural lore, he found his greatest mental recreation in intricate problems wholly unrelated to pure learning. Criminology satisfied this yearning in his nature, for it not only stimulated his analytical processes but brought into play his knowledge of recondite facts and his uncanny instinct for the subtleties of human nature.

Author : S.S. Van Dine
Publisher : FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631942150

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The Winter Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine Pdf

A murder in the mountains is the latest case for the Manhattan detective famed for his “highbrow manner and parade of encyclopedic learning” (The New York Times). Wealthy and worldly-wise detective Philo Vance has been asked to keep watch at a house party in the snowy Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he encounters an assortment of guests ranging from a treasure hunter to a race car driver. The owner of the house doesn’t quite trust his son’s friends—and is worried about the security of his precious emeralds. Sure enough, a guard is soon killed, the jewels are stolen, and then another guest dies, leaving Vance to make some cold calculations about who turned this gathering from festive to fatal . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune “The best of the American mystery men.” —The Globe

Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857064312

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The Philo VanCe Murder Cases by S. S. Van Dine Pdf

Dragons and games of chance and Philo Vance's game of death In the fourth Leonaur volume of the Philo Vance Murder Cases we find the urbane New Yorker tackling a particularly puzzling crime. In 'The Dragon Murder Case'-the seventh tale-a guest visiting a country house dives into the swimming pool and instead of climbing out again disappears completely. Suspicions are quickly raised concerning the intervention of a vengeful dragon, but Philo Vance is not so sure. He is, as devotees know, an expert in disappearances, criminals, dragons and how to solve a whodunit that would baffle anyone else. In the 'The Casino Murder Case', Vance receives an anonymous letter alerting him to imminent danger to a member of his own family. If he wants information which will assist him in averting the threat he must visit a certain Casino to find it. Predictably, once there the body count starts to rise .Vance once more has a case on his hands and a killer to uncover-and this time the preferred weapon is the poison bottle. This is another satisfying helping of detective fiction by one of its masters-with more to come as Leonaur publishes the complete collection of these classic stories.

Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066357177

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The Dragon Murder Case by Willard Huntington Wright Pdf

'The Dragon Murder Case' is a detective novel by S. S. Van Dine, the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright. In the depths of an opulent estate nestled in the heart of northern Manhattan, a mysterious guest takes an ill-fated plunge into the enchanted waters of a swimming pool, vanishing without a trace. As the echoes of his demise reverberate through the corridors, whispers of a malevolent myth emerge—an ancient dragon poised to devour the reckless. But it is the cunning and astuteness of the renowned detective, Philo Vance, that unveils the truth hidden amidst the intertwining worlds of mythical beasts and felonious minds. In a riveting tale that melds ancient lore with modern intrigue, Vance embarks on a relentless pursuit to unmask the perpetrator behind this treacherous act. Will he succeed in deciphering this perilous puzzle before darkness engulfs them all?