Where Have You Gone, Philo Vance?
By David Cranmer
May 8, 2015In March 1980, Jon L. Breen wrote in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, “The reputation of S.S. Van Dine, creator of Philo Vance and once the most famous American writer of detective stories, has sadly slipped in recent years, not entirely deservedly.” Now, thirty-five years after Mr. Breen’s column and seventy-six years after Van Dine’s death,…