The kennel murder case - S. S. Van Dine

• 4 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

• Given all the 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.
• 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.
• GoodMysteries.com, dedicated to the art of the classic whodunit, calls Kennel one of the best locked-room setups ever written.