The Benson Murder Case

The Benson Murder Case
Judith John, Christopher Semtner, S S Van Dine
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Hardback
h150 x 93mm - 384pg
15 Mar 2020 UK
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9781839641572
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The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CRIME CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library of classic crime and mystery thrillers. Each stunning unabridged edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The first best-selling title in S. S. Van Dine' s series of Philo Vance detective mysteries, The Benson Murder Case (1926), was inspired by the real-life unsolved murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell (1873-1920) in which the victim was shot from within his locked house. Intellectual dandy and amateur sleuth Vance a man of unusual culture and brilliance finds the case of murdered playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson fascinating, the missing toupee and false teeth being especially curious. . . Vance kindly comes to the aid of his friend District Attorney Markham and sets about tracking down the killer using his cerebral powers of deduction in contrast to the short-sighted methods of the police. A specially commissioned biography of the author and a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms make this new edition essential for all classic crime fans! AUTHOR: S. S. Van Dine was the crime-novel pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (1888 1939), an American journalist, critic and novelist. He wrote scathing book reviews as literary editor for the Los Angeles Times, and would later publish unconventional and avant-garde work by the likes of D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and Ezra Pound for the magazine The Smart Set. Yet it was as a writer of detective fiction that he found financial success. His series of novels featuring amateur sleuth and art lover Philo Vance, the first of which was The Benson Murder Case (1926), were so popular that they also lead to movies and radio, and prevented Wright from ever returning to the less lucrative writing of which he would have been more proud. Hardback Deluxe edition, foiled and embossed, with gilded edges.
S. S. Van Dine was the crime-novel pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939), an American journalist, critic and novelist. He wrote scathing book reviews as literary editor for the Los Angeles Times, and would later publish unconventional and avant-garde work by the likes of D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and Ezra Pound for the magazine The Smart Set. Yet it was as a writer of detective fiction that he found financial success. His series of novels featuring amateur sleuth and art lover Philo Vance, the first of which was The Benson Murder Case (1926), were so popular that they also lead to movies and radio, and prevented Wright from ever returning to the less lucrative writing of which he would have been more proud. Judith John (glossary) is a writer and editor specializing in literature and history. A former secondary school English Language and Literature teacher, she has subsequently worked as an editor on major educational projects, including English A: Literature for the Pearson International Baccalaureate series. Judith' s major research interests include Romantic and Gothic literature, and Renaissance drama. Chris Semtner (biography) is an internationally exhibited artist, author, and curator living in Virginia. The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, he has served as author, co-author or editor of several books including the History Press title "Edgar Allan Poe' s Richmond: The Raven in the River City. " He has created museum exhibits on Poe in the Comics, Poe' s Mysterious Death and Poe in the Movies. The New York Times called the exhibit he curated for the Library of Virginia, Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster, "provocative" and "a playful, robust exhibit. "
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781839641572
Published: 15 Mar 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 150mm
Width: 93mm
Spine: 18mm
Pages: 384

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