Philo Vance

The "Canary" Murder Case
In the offices of the Homicide Bureau of the Detective Division of the New York Police Department, o...
The Benson Murder Case
This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone...
The Bishop Murder Case
"Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as an unofficial investigator, the most...
The Casino Murder Case
Philo Vance receives an anonymous letter warning of deadly danger to the wealthy Llewellyn family he...
The Dragon Murder Case
"Of all the cases I have thus far recorded none was as exciting, as weird, as apparently unrelated t...
The Garden Murder Case
"There were two reasons why the terrible and, in many ways, incredible Garden murder case—which took...
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder....
The Greene Murder Case
Philo Vance takes a hand when, in an evening, one daughter of the Greene family is shot to death and...
The Kennel Murder Case
It was exactly three months after the startling termination of the Scarab murder case that Philo Van...
The Kidnap Murder Case
"Van Dine's last two full-length novels show his storytelling talent operating at full force. The Ki...
The Scarab Murder Case
"Philo Vance was drawn into the Scarab murder case by sheer coincidence, although there is little do...
The Winter Murder Case
The Winter Murder Case (1939) is a Philo Vance novella that S. S. Van Dine intended to expand into h...