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VAN DINE, S.S. (Pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright, 1888-1939). The Benson Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
8o. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket (some wear).
FIRST EDITION of the first Philo Vance mystery and Wright's first novel written under the S.S. Van Dine pseudonym, in the scarce dust jacket. "Rarely has there been...so fascinating and brilliant an investigator as this unique, learned, aloof, and snobbish young gentleman, [Philo Vance]" (dust jacket). William Powell played the leading role in the 1930 screen version. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.
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FIRST EDITION of the first Philo Vance mystery and Wright's first novel written under the S.S. Van Dine pseudonym, in the scarce dust jacket. "Rarely has there been...so fascinating and brilliant an investigator as this unique, learned, aloof, and snobbish young gentleman, [Philo Vance]" (dust jacket). William Powell played the leading role in the 1930 screen version. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.