The Benson Murder Case

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Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9788728204931

<p>When playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is found dead in his New York mansion with a bullet through his head, it sends shock waves through the city that never sleeps.</p><p>Detectives descend - and so does amateur detective Philo Vance, who immediately notices that Benson's toupee and false teeth are missing.</p><p>With the police always two steps behind, Vance sets off in pursuit of a mysterious killer. Along the way, skeletons fall out of every cupboard he opens in the homes of New York's rich and powerful.</p><p>Can Vance dodge danger, negotiate the petty politics and catch the killer?</p><p>'The Benson Murder Case' is ideal for fans of other amateur sleuths, including Agatha Christie's 'Miss Marple' and 'Poirot' and the wannabe detectives in Richard Osman's 'The Thursday Murder Club'.</p><p>S.S. Van Dine (1888-1939) is the novelist pseudonym of American art critic Willard Huntington Wright.</p><p>As an art critic, he was an influential name in pre-First World War New York, using a pseudonym when writing detective novels.</p><p>He created the popular fictional amateur detective Philo Vance in the 1920s when he was seriously ill and confined to bed for many months.</p><p>His 12 Philo Vance novels made him one of the best-selling US authors in the inter-war years.</p>