The Kennel Murder Case
Mystery novel | |
Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons (first edition), Macmillan Publishers (reprint) |
---|---|
Publication date | 1933 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover, 1st edition) (Paperback reprint) |
Pages | 307 pp. |
Preceded by | The Scarab Murder Case |
Followed by | The Dragon Murder Case |
The Kennel Murder Case is a 1933 murder mystery novel written by S. S. Van Dine with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked-room mystery.
Plot summary
One of the Coe brothers is found dead in his bedroom, locked from the inside, and the other brother is found the next morning dead in the downstairs closet. There is also the clue of a wounded
Film adaptations
A
The Kennel Murder Case was remade by Warners in 1940 as Calling Philo Vance with James Stephenson as Vance and William Clemens directing. World War II-era espionage stood in for the skulduggery of the art world in the remake.
Literary significance and criticism
According to the 1936 introduction to the novel, in the omnibus Philo Vance Murder Cases, the two halves were written nearly a year apart. Several real-life friends of author S. S. Van Dine appear as themselves in the second half of the novel.
"Though dogs can be dangerous in life and in detection, this imbroglio by the precious and pedantic Van Dine is rather better than the rest of those written after 1930. It is a locked-room murder, there are clues, and Vance is not obnoxious beyond endurance."[1]
Release details
- 1932, U.S., Cosmopolitan, serialized November 1932 – February 1933[2]
- 1933, U.S., Charles Scribner's Sons, (ISBN none), Pub date 1933, Hardcover (first edition)
- 1946, U.S., Bantam, (ISBN none), publication date October 1946, first paperback edition
- 1984, U.S., Macmillan, (ISBN 0-684-18248-3), Pub date September 1, 1984, Paperback
References
- ISBN 0-06-015796-8
- ^ "The Kennel Murder Case". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
External links
- The Kennel Murder Case at Faded Page (Canada)
- The Kennel Murder Case (1933 film) at IMDb
- The Kennel Murder Case can be read here, courtesy of Project Gutenberg.