Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer. - S. S. Van Dine
There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
- S. S. Van Dine
Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incom… - S. S. Van Dine
Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incom…
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. - S. S. Van Dine
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. - S. S. Van Dine
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value. - S. S. Van Dine
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'at… - S. S. Van Dine
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'at…
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon B… - S. S. Van Dine
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon B…
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