Word: piscatorialist
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...novel by S. S. Van Dine to be translated into cinema, shows Detective Philo Vance airily investigating the demise of a young man who dives into a swimming pool and fails to come up. Since the young man's host, a Mr. Stamm, is a retired explorer and practicing piscatorialist, there are several possible explanations. The young man may have been swallowed by a dragon, drowned by accident or bored to death by Mr. Stamm's tropical fish. Detective Vance proves that none of these hypotheses is correct. Stamm has dressed himself in a diving suit with claw fingers, choked...
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