The Benson Murder Case

Elektronická kniha The Benson Murder Case: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.
Detectives descend - and so does amateur detective Philo Vance, who immediately notices that Bensons toupee and false teeth are missing.
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 Yorks rich and powerful.
Can Vance dodge danger, negotiate the petty politics and catch the killer?
The Benson Murder Case is ideal for fans of other amateur sleuths, including Agatha Christies Miss Marple and Poirot and the wannabe detectives in Richard Osmans The Thursday Murder Club.
S.S. Van Dine (1888-1939) is the novelist pseudonym of American art critic Willard Huntington Wright.
As an art critic, he was an influential name in pre-First World War New York, using a pseudonym when writing detective novels.
He created the popular fictional amateur detective Philo Vance in the 1920s when he was seriously ill and confined to bed for many months.
His 12 Philo Vance novels made him one of the best-selling US authors in the inter-war years.

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