Rare - S S Van Dine THE SCARAB MURDER CASE 1930 First Edition 1st Printing

by S.S. Van Dine

In the 1920s, the world went Egypt-crazy, and even Philo Vance, that eminent scholar-sleuth, has some sympathy for the fad--though of course he knows lots more about the topic than anyone else. When a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B08T5R3NQW
• Release Date: January 1777
• Publisher: Generic

Customer Reviews

One of the Best of the Philo Vance Mysteries

I think The Scarab Murder Case is one of the best of the Philo Vance series. It involves an eery atomosphere at a museum of Egyptology (a very popular subject in the 1920's and 1930's), a mysterious murder, and a complex plot on who did the murder and how. The how being the most interesting in the book. Was it a curse, or was just a complex murder?As with the other Van Dine books, he throws in a lot information on the Egyptian art. But of course, Philo Vance, the detective, knows all there is to know about the subject, just as he with any other subject.