S. S. Van Dine: The Bishop Murder Case (USA 2019)

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After solving the Greene murders, Philo Vance has taken a well-earned holiday in Switzerland. Returning to New York City he finds his old chum District Attorney Anthony Markham up against a bizarre series of murders inspired by children's nursery rhymes. The first murder, involving a beautiful young woman and a private archery range, was apparently based on "Who Killed Cock Robin?"; it is followed by more hideous deaths referencing "Mother Goose." But Philo Vance is not a man to be fobbed off with points to juvenilia. Markham and his colleagues may be worried that a certain Mr. H. Dumpty is riding for a great fall, but Philo Vance suspects a connection to a rather more sophisticated writer.

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S. S. Van Dine: The Bishop Murder Case. Philo Vance #4. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 9781631941832 (April, 2019), 312 p., $14.95, eBook $7.99.

S. S. Van Dine: The Bishop Murder Case (USA 1945)

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"WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?"
The series of uncanny and apparently unrelated events in early April rudely interrupted Philo Vance's translation of Menander and became a criminal mystery which threw the entire country into a state of gruesome excitement. At once it became known as the Bishop murder case. There was nothing ecclesiastical about that ghoulish saturnalia of crime which set an entire community to reading the Mother Goose Melodies with fearful apprehension; no one of the name of Bishop was even remotely connected with those monstrous events; nevertheless, the word "Bishop" was appropriate, for it was an alias used for the grimmest of purposes, and eventually it led Vance to the almost incredible truth, thus ending one of the most ghastly multiple crimes in police history.

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S. S. Van Dine: The Bishop Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story. Pocket Books #305 (2nd Printing August, 1945), 266 p., ??¢.