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The Benson Murder Case
[english | 1926]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... Coast, and the Congo. A definite purpose has animated me in speaking at such length about Vance's art instinct, for, in order to understand fully the melodramatic ...... snorted. 'Probably,' he repeated to Markham with good-natured contempt. You can bank on it if the captain says so??? . You see, ...... here looked upon a small stone court, really no more than a deep airwell ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 350
The Bishop Murder Case
[english | 1928]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... there's his prot??g??, Sigurd Arnesson, who was a classmate of mine at college. The professor adopted him during his junior year. Arnesson is now about ...... from the Homicide Bureau. The Sergeant, who was standing beside the centre-table smoking, his thumbs hooked in the armholes of his waistcoat, came forward ...... fiendish. The Bishop Murder Case Chapter 4 A MYSTERIOUS NOTE ...]
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The Canary Murder Case
[english | 1927]S Van Dine
Summary: [In the offices of the Homicide Bureau of the Detective Division of the New York Police Department on the third floor of the police headquarters building in Centre Street there is a large steel filing cabinet and within it among thousands of others of its kind there reposes a small green index card on which is typed: ODELL MARGARET. 184 West 71st Street. Sept. 10. Murder: Strangled about 11 P.M. ...]
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The Casino Murder Case
[english | 1934]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... . His voice trailed off. Anxiety! he continued, as if to himself. That's exactly what exudes from between the lines. But anxiety about what? about ...... actually intend to go to the Casino because of that letter? Vance nodded seriously. Oh, yes???quite. The Casino Murder Case Chapter ...... tonight and watch the johnnie. Kinkaid waved his hand. I'd discount that. But you just ...]
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The Dragon Murder Case
[english | 1933]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... which he participated. He was drawn into these investigations as a result of his friendship with John F.-X. Markham during the latter's four years' incumbency ...... out, exists wholly by sponging on his friends. Incidentally, he has made something of an ass of himself over Bernice Stamm??? . And Greeff???what ...... you of Mr. Stamm's condition I won't be violating professional ...]
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The Garden Murder Case
[english | 1935]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... the disconnected items of this message you've just received, how, in the name of Heaven, can you take it seriously? Vance drew deeply on his cigarette ...... the set-up beforehand, they won't bother you so much. Thanks awfully and all that, Vance murmured. Perhaps I see your point. Woode has been acting ...... ride that Coltiletti gave Sun Beau at Agua Caliente, losing the race to ...]
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
[english | 1938]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... chatter. The Gracie Allen Murder Case Chapter 2 A RUSTIC INTERLUDE (Saturday, May 18 afternoon.) The next day, shortly after noon, we ...... were generously spattered with mud his hat was crushed and grotesquely awry and his torn coat-sleeve looked like that of some roving mendicant. In ...... Mr. Puttie be now? asked Vance. Don't tell me he's attempting to sell perfumes along the ...]
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The Greene Murder Case
[english | 1928]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton???have not devoted more space to the ...... Mr. Markham. But they're perfectly right. We invalids are of no use in the world, are we? Markham muttered some polite protestation, to which Mrs. ...... better when I've seen Ada, the doctor replied. He passed on hurriedly, and we ...]
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The Kennel Murder Case
[english | 1933]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... evidently veiling double sliding doors. To the left were other porti??res but these were drawn back, and we could look through the open doors ...... this case. Humorous in a grim, satirical sense. Some one miscalculated somewhere???the murderer was sitting in a game with the cards stacked against ...... what about it? Doremus began filling in the order. There's the body???look at ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 364
The Kidnap Murder Case
[english | 1936]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... spoke he rang for Currie, his old English butler and majordomo, and asked for his hat and chamois gloves. Filling his cigarette case, he waved a friendly ...... Can't be any one else's finger-prints except the guy what lives here. Nothing new anywhere. And the window-sill? asked Heath with desperate hopefulness. Not ...... a bit??? . He moved to the chest of drawers and adjusted ...]
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The Scarab Murder Case
[english | 1930]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... ring. But I saw no reason to disturb Brush??? Brush? The Bliss butler??? . So I merely pushed the door open and entered the hallway. The steel entrance ...... himself up with a quick intake of breath: he appeared positively ill, and I almost expected him to faint. His face was like chalk. Certainly, sir???I ...... leave the house? No. My room is at the rear, and I did not leave it ...]
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The Winter Murder Case
[english | 1939]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... and, as the girl completed an involved jump and spiral spin, Vance approached her with a cheerful greeting. At first she was startled then she smiled ...... pilot, and only a governmental veto had stayed her proposed solo flight across the Atlantic. What's up, Bee? came a rumbling voice behind me, ...... her spine while skating, when she was only ten years old.) Joan's fatigue need ...]
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Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories
[english | 1939]S Van Dine
Excerpts: [... of Credo, based partly on the practice of all the great writers of stories, and partly on the promptings of the honest author's inner conscience. To ...... To solve a criminal problem in this latter fashion is like sending the reader on a deliberate wild-goose chase, and then telling him, after he has ...... in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. No lesser ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | non-fiction] Downloads: 157