The "Canary" Murder Case
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2024
Summary
The acclaimed Library of Congress Crime Classics series presents, a fiendishly clever locked-room mystery first published in 1926, with an all-new introduction and commentary by series editor, Leslie S. Klinger.
Nightclub singer Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as “The Canary”, is found murdered in her ransacked apartment, her jewelry stolen. It appears at first to be a robbery gone wrong, but the police can find no physical evidence to pinpoint a c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781728283302 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1728283302 |
| Author: | S.S. Van Dine, Leslie S. Klinger |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 10g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Library of Congress Crime Classics |
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S.S. Van Dine
S. S. VAN DINE is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective fiction. He began his writing career as the literary editor of the Los Angeles Times, but also worked for a New York literary magazine. In 1926 he published a seminal essay on the history, traditions, and conventions of detective fiction as an art form and within two years and three mysteries, he was one of the best-selling authors in the United States. His title The Canary Murder Case was made into a film starring William Powell and Louise Brooks.
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