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...develop a background that will help the whole atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases say and do a lot of idiotic things in an attempt to give his story an intellectual and cultural background...
...along the line of murders, S. S. Van Dine, who made his first reputation out of stories with one murder, went on brilliantly to four in the Greene family. Director Frank Tuttle, who photographed The Canary Murder Case, used District Attorney Markham, Detective Sergeant Heath and Super-Detective Philo Vance (William Powell) again to find out who was killing all the Greenes. Perhaps because of the great number of Greenes who must die before the murderer is tracked down, the picture seems to move heavily, doggedly, to the point where erudite Philo Vance patiently explains his solution of the murder...
...Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still wondering if bemonocled Arthur Van Dine and his super-detective "Philo Vance" could have solved the crime if they had tried, looked forward to seeing a new trick of detection incorporated in the next adventure of "Philo Vance." The trick was Detective Coughlin's. To rattle his prisoner into a confession and forestall reports of "third degree" methods, the questioning...
Called in to investigate: Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine), creator of super-detective "Philo Vance" (The Greene Murder Case, The Bishop Murder Case...
...majority of the characters in the book are a bit balmy−including the detective, Philo Vance, an arty fellow, who smokes Regie cigarets and says "amazin' " for amazing. Chess and higher mathematics are discussed and rediscussed until the reader, too, is a bit balmy...