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The "canary" murder case : a Philo Vance story / S. S. Van Dine ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Leslie S. Klinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Dine, S. S., author.
- Series:
- Library of Congress Crime Classics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vance, Philo (Fictitious character)--Fiction--Fiction.
- Vance, Philo (Fictitious character).
- Private investigators--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- The canary murder case
- Place of Publication:
- 2023.
- Naperville : Poisoned Pen Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Nightclub singer Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is found murdered in her ransacked apartment, her jewelry stolen. It appears at first to be a robbery gone wrong, but the police can find no physical evidence to pinpoint a culprit. No one witnessed anyone entering or leaving, and the only unwatched entrance to the apartment building was bolted from the inside. Who could have killed the Canary in her locked cage? The victim was seeing a number of men, ranging from a high society gentleman to ruthless gangsters, and more than one man visited her apartment on the night she died. When the D.A. is stumped, he turns to his friend Philo Vance, an erudite and snobbish aristocrat, who applies his brilliant observations of human nature during a poker game with the suspects to determine who in fact knocked the Canary from her perch--permane$ntly"-- $c Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress
- Introduction / Leslie S. Klinger
- Introductory / S. S. Van Dine
- The "Canary"
- Footprints in the Snow
- the Murder
- The Print of a Hand
- The Bolted Door
- A Call for Help
- A Nameless Visitor
- The Invisible Murderer
- The Pack in Full Cry
- A Forced Interview
- Seeking Information
- Circumstantial Evidence
- An Erstwhile Gallant
- Vance Outlines a Theory
- Four Possibilities
- Significant Disclosures
- Checking an Alibi
- The Trap
- The Doctor Explains
- A Midnight Witness
- A Contradiction in Dates
- A Telephone Call
- The Ten O'Clock Appointment
- An Arrest
- Vance Demonstrates
- Reconstructing the Crime
- A Game of Poker
- The Guilty Man
- Beethoven's "Andante"
- The End
- S. S. Van Dine Sets Down Twenty Rules for Detective Stories.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Van Dine, S. S. The "canary" murder case.
- ISBN:
- 9781728283319
- 1728283310
- 9781728283326
- 1728283329
- OCLC:
- 1395184222
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