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      The Winter Murder Case

      by S.S. Van Dine
      Published
      Jan 1939
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
      Pages
      152
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      Series
      A Philo Vance Mystery Book 12

      About This Book

      A murder in the mountains is the latest case for the Manhattan detective famed for his "highbrow manner and parade of encyclopedic learning" (The New York Times).

      Wealthy and worldly-wise detective Philo Vance has been asked to keep watch at a house party in the snowy Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he encounters an assortment of guests ranging from a treasure hunter to a race car driver. The owner of the house doesn't quite trust his son's friends—and is worried about the security of his precious emeralds. Sure enough, a guard is soon killed, the jewels are stolen, and then another guest dies, leaving Vance to make some cold calculations about who turned this gathering from festive to fatal . . .

      "Mr. Van Dine's amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature." —Chicago Daily Tribune

      "The best of the American mystery men." —The Globe

      Series Placement

      Book 12
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction Suspense

      Subgenres

      Hard-Boiled Literary Mystery Police Procedural Private Investigator

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