Faith, Fiction, Friends

While the mystery detective story may have been invented by Edgar Allen Poe, detective stories generally languished in America until th...

Few outside his immediate circle of friends knew it, but  S.S. Van Dine , author of the Philo Vance mysteries, was in declining health....

People are tempted to do a lot of things when they need money.  Mystery writer  S.S. Van Dine  needed money, and he cut a deal with...

Of the 12 Philo Vance mysteries by  S.S. Van Dine , only two weren’t made into movies. Several actors played the detective in the vario...

Almost every Philo Vance mystery by  S.S. Van Dine  includes an in-depth dive into a subject. It may be Egyptian artifacts and hierogly...

The purported narrator of the Philo Vance mystery novels is the pseudonymous author  S.S. Van Dine , always referred to as “Van” in t...