The Garden Murder Case (A Philo Vance Detective Story)

S. S. Van Dine

• Publisher: Moran Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781473306035
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473379794
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1935 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Garden 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.

Table of contents

• THE GARDEN MURDER CASE (1935)
• S. S. Van Dine
• CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK
• CHAPTER I. THE TROJAN HORSES
• CHAPTER II. DOMESTIC REVELATIONS
• CHAPTER III. THE RIVERMONT RACES
• CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST TRAGEDY
• CHAPTER V. A SEARCH IN THE VAULT
• CHAPTER VI. AN INTERRUPTED INTERVIEW
• CHAPTER VII. EVIDENCE OF MURDER
• CHAPTER VIII. DISCONNECTED WIRES
• CHAPTER IX. TWO CIGARETTE STUBS
• CHAPTER X. THE $10,000 BET
• CHAPTER XI. THE SECOND REVOLVER
• CHAPTER XII. POISON GAS
• CHAPTER XIII. THE AZURE STAR
• CHAPTER XIV. RADIOACTIVE SODIUM
• CHAPTER XV. THREE VISITORS
• CHAPTER XVI. THROUGH THE GARDEN DOOR
• CHAPTER XVII. AN UNEXPECTED SHOT
• CHAPTER XVIII. THE SCRATCH SHEET