S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939)...

fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular...

1920s by writing the Philo Vance detective novels under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine. Married at the age of seventeen, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris with...

publication the longest book printed in Albanian S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939), American art critic and author Thomas Dine, chief executive officer of the Jewish Community...

The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel written by S. S. Van Dine with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked-room...

American pre-Code crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by S. S. Van Dine and Bartlett Cormack. The film stars William Powell, William "Stage"...

The Greene Murder Case is a 1928 mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine. It focuses on the murders, one by one, of members of the wealthy and contentious Greene...

The Winter Murder Case (1939) is a Philo Vance novella that S. S. Van Dine intended to expand into his twelfth full-length book, a project cut short by...

The Kidnap Murder Case is a 1936 murder mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine, the tenth of twelve books featuring fictional detective Philo Vance. A member...

The Scent of Murder) is the eleventh of twelve detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring his famous fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s, Philo...

The Scarab Murder Case (1930) is a classic whodunit written by S. S. Van Dine. In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in...

"the Canary," and, eventually, her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard...

is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance, Margaret...

S.S. Van Dine (the pseudonym for Willard Huntington Wright). The film was directed by Malcolm St. Clair, with a screenplay by Wright (under the Van Dine...

Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine, which became a best-seller. New York dilettante Philo Vance decides...

Ayn Rand, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Wallace, S. S. Van Dine and Dylan Thomas. With the introduction of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement, works of...

Bishop Murder Case (1929) is the fourth in a series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. The detective solves a mystery...

A similar but more detailed list of prerequisites was prepared by S. S. Van Dine in an article entitled "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories"...

also the subject of one of S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance mystery novels, The Gracie Allen Murder Case. Allen said: "S.S. Van Dine is silly to spend six months...

Dragon Murder Case (first published in 1934) is a novel in a series by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted to a film...

pilot (d. 1910) 1887 – Frederick Fleet, English sailor (d. 1965) 1888 – S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (d. 1939) 1890 – Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese...

screenplay by Bertram Millhauser based on the 1935 book of the same name by S. S. Van Dine. Society swell and dilettante detective Philo Vance investigates a number...

pre-Code mystery film adapted from the 1933 novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine. Directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., it stars William Powell...

Hugh Walpole Swan Song by John Galsworthy The Greene Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine Bad Girl by Viña Delmar Claire Ambler by Booth Tarkington Old Pybus...

Innes, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey. Others – S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the...

the movie The Haunting Philo Vance, detective in several novels by S. S. Van Dine Victor Vance, from the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Vance...

by James Wan and Leigh Whannell Detective Van Zwam, The Adventures of Nero Philo Vance, by S. S. Van Dine Nick Valentine, Fallout 4 Karl "Computer" Vierstein...

Jerome Dickey (1961–2021, US) Peter Dickinson (1927–2015, N Rhodesia/E) S. S. Van Dine (1888–1939, US), pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright Doris Miles...

American comedy mystery film taken from the Philo Vance series by writer S.S. Van Dine and directed by Alfred E. Green from a screenplay by Nat Perrin. The...

Pen name Real name Details S. S. Van Dine Willard Huntington Wright Art critic and author of Philo Vance mysteries S. E. Hinton Susan Eloise Hinton Saint-John...