 First edition cover | |
| Author | S. S. Van Dine |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Philo Vance |
| Genre | Mystery novels |
| Publisher | Scribner's |
Publication date | 1927 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 343 pp |
| Preceded by | The Benson Murder Case |
| Followed by | The Greene Murder Case |
The "Canary" Murder Case (1927) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of an attractive 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."[1] The earliest editions give the title with quotation marks around the word "Canary", but most subsequent editions omit them.
- ^ Symons, Julian. (1974) Bloody Murder (second, revised edition), London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-003794-2