There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
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…
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. - S. S. Van Dine
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.
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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