THE BENSON MURDER CASE

The plot opens with the sensational murder of Alvin Benson, a well-known Wall Street broker and man-about-town, and the entire book is devoted, without a single irrelevant side issue, to the startling solution of the criminal problem involved. New York's District Attorney and the best men from the Homicide Bureau work indefatigably on the case; but the final solution is achieved by Philo Vance, an intimate friend of the District Attorney's, and the central character of the book.

Philo Vance is a brilliant, debonair, and cultured young gentleman, whose astonishing methods of crime detection are based on the solid foundation of learning and psychological analysis; and his deductive approach to criminal problems, coupled with his vivid and magnetic personality, constitues an entirely new and, we believe, better type of detective-mystery fiction.

The drama is tense throughout; and each succeeding chapter marks a forward step in the working out of an absorbing and thrilling problem.

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6 x 9 inch
364 pages
$19.95

THE CANARY MURDER CASE

A new detective novel by S. S. Van Dine, author of "The Benson Murder Case". This new Philo Vance story adheres to the best traditions of its type: the drama is tense throughout and each chapter marks a forward step in the working out of an absorbing and thrilling problem in criminal investigation.

The story opens wilth the sensational murder of a famous Broadway beauty. The crime completely baffles the best men of the Homicide Bureau and the District Attorney's office; and the solution is worked out only through the extraordinary methods of deduction used by Philo Vance, an intimate friend of the District Attorney's.

Here is a straightaway detective story, without false issues, sidetrackings, or irrelevant episodes, brilliantly written by an expert in criminal research. It will not only appeal irresistibly to detective story lovers, but will prove highly attractive to those who heretofore have not cared especially for this type of fiction.

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6 x 9 inch
360 pages
$16.95

THE BISHOP MURDER CASE

Joseph C. Robin, champion archer, is mysteriously pierced through the heart by an arrow. The body is discovered on the archery range alongside the home of Porfessor Bertrand Dillard in 75th Street, near Riverside Drive. The Police Department and the district attorney's office are immediately notified; and there follows a criminal investigation fraught with the tensest drama and the most baffling horrors. There are more murders and in each case the facetious murderer calls himself the Bishop. It is his plesant habit after each murder to suggest a false clue in a little nursery rhyme, which, considering the circumstances of the crimes, give the case a particularly mystifying and fiendish appearance.

When Philo Vance, intimate friend of the district attorney, takes a hand, it is his unique psychological methods of deduction that eventually solve the weird problem.

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
360 pages
$19.95