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The Canary Murder Case
The Canary Murder Case (1927) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as "the Canary," and, eventually, her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard Haycraft to have broken "all modern publishing records for detective fiction." The earliest editions give the title with quotation marks around the word "Canary", but most subsequent editions omit
(1922)
- "The Cat and the Canary" (1927)
- "" (1927)
- "The Canary Murder Case" (1929)
- "The Greene Murder Case" (1929)
- "The Letter" (1929)
- "The Studio Murder Mystery" (1929)
1930s.
- "The Bat Whispers" (1930)
- "The Benson Murder Case" (1930)
- "The Bishop Murder Case" (1930)