The Scarab Murder Case: Death in a Private Egyptian Museum

A body under a fallen statue of Sakhmet, the Egyptian goddess of vengeance, in a private museum where everyone had a motive. Van Dine wrote the Philo Vance books after a two-year illness spent reading nothing but detective fiction, and they made him the best-selling author in America for a decade...

S. S. Van Dine (1888-1939) was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright, an American art critic and editor born in Charlottesville, Virginia. Confined by illness, he read two thousand volumes of criminology and detective fiction and then wrote his own. His works include The Benson Murder Case, T...