Rules for Murder : S. S. Van Dine – “The Benson Murder Case” and “The Canary Murder Case” ( Philo Vance # 1 and 2)

Ah, the mystery of S. S. Van Dine (as the influential New York art critic Willard Huntington Wright preferred to call himself when he went slumming in the detective genre )! Most readers today do not learn about Van Dine through his art writing (he brought Cezanne to the attention of the American public) or …