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

From the Publisher:
Given the number of rich people getting bumped off in Philo Vance's Manhattan, it's amazing there are enough left to support the symphony. Latest up: Arthur Coe, found dead in his own locked bedroom. Suicide? The ever-perceptive Philo doesn't buy that theory for a second, especially since Coe is sporting not only a bullet hole but also clear signs of having been stabbed repeatedly and whacked with a blunt object. The presence in Coe's house of a strange, prize-winning terrier only adds to the mystery, although Philo's fabulously in-depth knowledge of dogs does not in fact solve the crime; his fabulously in-depth knowledge of the murder of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898 proves much more useful.

Like most of the "Philo Vance" novels, Kennel was made into a movie, directed this time by Michael Curtiz, who a few years later would turn his hand to a little number known as Casablanca. At least one critic has called the film a "masterpiece," and though we make no similar claim for the book, GoodMysteries.com, dedicated to the art of the classic whodunit, calls Kennel "one of the best locked-room setups ever written."

"An intricate puzzle... [Philo Vance] has an uncanny insight into the subtler aspects of crime... likely to be tremendously popular" -- New York Times

S. S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case. Philo Vance #6. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN: 9781631942013 (September, 2019), 256 p., $14.95, eBook $9.99.

S. S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
When the corpse of Chinese art collector Archer Coe is found, gun in hand, in a room whose only door is bolted from the inside, the authorities assume they've discovered a suicide. But after considering the bizarre clues the locked room offers -- including a wounded scottie and a blood-stained fragment of an Oriental vase -- Philo Vance can only conclude that Coe was murdered. With his usual highfalutin wit and psychological detection skills, Vance sets about solving a series of peculiarly gruesome killings that rock the elegant New York art world of the early 1930s.

"The Kennel Murder Case is another highly entertaining exploit of Philo Vance... S. S. Van Dine [is] one of the best of the mystery-yarn spinners. Certainly his is the nearest approach to the technic of the late Conan Doyle." -- The Saturday Evening Post

"So Philo Vance will be darting around again. Good!" -- Rex Stout

S. S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case. A Philo Vance Mystery. New York: Scribner's, 1984, ISBN: 0684182483, 306 p., $3.95.

S. S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case (USA 1946)

From the Publisher:
Philo Vance, that slim, monocled gentleman who knows everything and has a taste for crime, has attracted more readers to the mystery story than anybody else. As famous in the movies as in Van Dine's books, Vance can now number his followers in the millions. The publishers take murderous pleasure in welcoming this debonair detective to their fold. Van Dine's mysteries will be published at regular intervals by Bantam Books.

This Bantam Book contains the complete text of the original edition, shown here. Not one word has been changed or omitted. The low-priced Bantam edition is made possible by the large sale and effective promotion of the original edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

S. S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case. A Philo Vance Story. Bantam Books #60 (October, 1946), 243 p., ??¢.