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The Benson Murder Case

by S. S. Van Dine

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1926
Pages
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  1. Chapter 1 - Philo Vance at Home

    28:03

  2. Chapter 2 - At the Scene of the Crime

    28:28

  3. Chapter 3 - A Lady's Hand-bag

    24:15

  4. Chapter 4 - The Housekeeper's Story

    24:17

  5. Chapter 5 - Gathering Information

    22:36

  6. Chapter 6 - Vance Offers an Opinion

    26:12

  7. Chapter 7 - Reports an Interview

    31:59

  8. Chapter 8 - Vance Accepts a Challenge

    28:52

  9. Chapter 9 - The Height of the Murderer

    21:18

  10. Chapter 10 - Eliminating a Suspect

    21:22

  11. Chapter 11 - A Motive and a Threat

    26:10

  12. Chapter 12 - The Owner of a Colt-.45

    18:19

  13. Chapter 13 - The Grey Cadillac

    19:37

  14. Chapter 14 - Links in the Chain

    17:03

  15. Chapter 15 - Pfyfe - Personal

    25:40

  16. Chapter 16 - Admissions and Suppressions

    28:30

  17. Chapter 17 - The Forged Check

    23:38

  18. Chapter 18 - A Confession

    21:31

  19. Chapter 19 - Vance Cross-Examines

    28:21

  20. Chapter 20 - A Lady Explains

    23:43

  21. Chapter 21 - Sartorial Revelations

    26:20

  22. Chapter 22 - Vance Outlines a Theory

    32:48

  23. Chapter 23 - Checking an Alibi

    31:07

  24. Chapter 24 - The Arrest

    30:30

  25. Chapter 25 - Vance Explains His Methods

    27:24

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When a well-known New York bachelor is found shot dead in his own home, District Attorney Markham turns to his cultured friend Philo Vance, an aesthete and amateur criminologist who solves crimes by reading character rather than chasing fingerprints. Van Dine's 1926 debut introduced Vance to enormous popular success and helped ignite America's Golden Age of detective fiction. Vance dismisses the obvious suspects and the physical clues that satisfy the police, insisting that only psychology can reveal who truly fits the crime. Elegant, talky, and confidently clever, it set the template for the classic drawing-room whodunit on this side of the Atlantic. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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S. S. Van Dine

S. S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939), an American art critic and editor who turned to crime fiction while recovering from illness. His Philo Vance novels became runaway bestsellers in the late 1920s and did much to popularize the puzzle-driven detective story in the United States.

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First published
1926
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
242
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Kirsten Wever