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Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Van Dine. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Van Dine pseudonym ,. Willard Huntington Wright. A reemergence of a long out-of-print classic, first published in , follows the disappearance of playboy Kaspar Kenting and the investigations of the detective who sorts through the clues of an apparent kidnapping, uncovering a family secret in the process. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. Published November by Scribner first published More Details Original Title.
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Jul 17, Kenchiin rated it it was ok Shelves: classic-mystery. I think the author was running out of ideas by then. Jun 08, Rick Mills rated it liked it Shelves: s-s-van-dine. The kidnapping case is full of the usual cliches: a ransom note comprised of words cut from a newspaper, and a demand to leave the ransom in a hollow tree at midnight. So far, it looks like a plot for the Hardy Boys. The odd notes are: How does one kidnap a non-cooperative full grown adult out a bedroom window and down a ladder?
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Hell, he even sported a monocle. We were meant to take this pretentious upper class doofus — and the dry, humourless books he appeared in — seriously.
He remains one of the most pivotal of fictional detectives, culturally and historically significant, and totally important in the development of the genre as a whole, and perhaps more importantly, seemed like a man of his time — an American man of his time. Still, the books kept coming, starting in with The Benson Murder Case and continuing for eleven sequels. Just three years after the first novel appeared, the second in the series, The Canary Murder Case , was adapted for film, with future Thin Man star William Powell playing the monocoled one in a film that began as a silent film and switched to a talkie midway through production.
Powell would go on to reprise the role several times, and other actors also took a crack at Vance over the years, including Warren William and Basil Rathbone.
Paramount churned out a dozen of them between and , and Warner Brothers gave it a crack with Calling Philo Vance , while PRC attempted to revive the series in with three films which re-cast Vance as a hard-boiled or at least slightly harder-boiled dick. Most of the films are hit-or-miss, with Powell and Rathbone the most successful at adding just enough charm to give the character more palatable to appease the audience — many of the other films not even trying.
Far more enjoyable were the three radio shows that popped up in the forties.
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The franchise seems to have maintained the highest standards of plot integrity and compelling mystery through all three incarnations of its production runs. The resulting scandal, though, cost him his career in journalism, and he spent several years mooching off friends and doing drugs, before deciding to write mysteries. Naturally, none of this went to his head.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Over the next decade, Wright's life would fall back into a pattern of false starts, debt and incredibly bad timing. He published a lightweight essay on touring Europe at the dawn of WWI that understandably failed miserably.
Seemingly clueless, Wright published his second book, 'What Nietzsche Taught' in , only to find the public's appetite for Teutonic philosophy seriously wanting after the sinking of the Lusitania. During this period he was extremely productive, publishing a novel, 'Man of Promise,' which although it too failed, gained him good critical notice and ironically, a reprint by Scribner's in , designed to capitalize on his later Philo Vance success.
Wright had always suffered from a need for immediate gratification and had a particular fondness for living on the edge and it was around this time he acquired a particularly nasty morphine habit and returned to his wife and daughter for an abortive reconciliation. He left for New York again in , and immediately resumed his drug habit, sporadically writing penny-a-word copy for movie magazines in a haze of alcohol and a worsening need for dope, under various pseudonyms. Hitting rock bottom in , he was living off a wealthy married woman.
During this long downward spiral, Wright practiced the life of an addict: his shortcomings were magnified under the influence; he became thoroughly unreliable and borrowed money he wouldn't or couldn't repay. Wright succeeded in alienating his most prominent supporter, H. Lederer helped to nominally support Wright and allowed him access to his enormous mystery library as research.
By , desperate for money and figuring it was better than writing for hack movie magazines, Wright made his most serious attempt at drying out. He accepted Lederer's challenge and delved into the mystery genre, studying it's formula and style while suppressing his long-professed shame at writing popular fiction.
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And he succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations, creating one of the most famous detective characters in 20th Century fiction, the ultra-sophisticated Philo Vance. Adopting 'S. Van Dine' as his persona, he served as a narrator of Philo Vance's series of ingenious murder mysteries. Cleverly introducing Van Dine as Vance's lawyer and college friend , he ingratiated himself unobtrusively in each story.
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Each of his novels would feature detailed schematics of the murderous settings and would become something of a trademark. Wright immediately hammered out two best selling follow ups which were sold to Paramount as a package deal in Wright's 'S. Van Dine' became the one of the most popular writers in America.