The Scarab Murder Case (a Philo Vance Detective Story)
eBook - ePub

The Scarab Murder Case (a Philo Vance Detective Story)

  1. 382 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Scarab Murder Case (a Philo Vance Detective Story)

About this book

This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Scarab Murder Case' is one of Van Dine's novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful.

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Table of contents

  1. THE SCARAB MURDER CASE
  2. S. S. Van Dine
  3. CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK
  4. Chapter 1. MURDER!
  5. Chapter 2. THE VENGEANCE OF SAKHMET
  6. Chapter 3. SCARABAEUS SACER
  7. Chapter 4. TRACKS IN THE BLOOD
  8. Chapter 5. MERYT-AMEN
  9. Chapter 6. A FOUR-HOUR ERRAND
  10. Chapter 7. THE FINGER-PRINTS
  11. Chapter 8. IN THE STUDY
  12. Chapter 9. VANCE MAKES AN EXPERIMENT
  13. Chapter 10. THE YELLOW PENCIL
  14. Chapter 11. THE COFFEE PERCOLATOR
  15. Chapter 12. THE TIN OF OPIUM
  16. Chapter 13. AN ATTEMPTED ESCAPE
  17. Chapter 14. A HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER
  18. Chapter 15. VANCE MAKES A DISCOVERY
  19. Chapter 16. A CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT
  20. Chapter 17. THE GOLDEN DAGGER
  21. Chapter 18. A LIGHT IN THE MUSEUM
  22. Chapter 19. A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
  23. Chapter 20. THE GRANITE SARCOPHAGUS
  24. Chapter 21. THE MURDERER
  25. Chapter 22. THE JUDGMENT OF ANÛBIS