The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1938 novel by S.S. Van Dine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938) (also published as The Scent of Murder) is the eleventh of twelve detective novels by S. S. Van Dine featuring his famous fictional detective of the 1920s and 1930s, Philo Vance. It also features the zany half of the Burns and Allen comedy team. It is in some ways a roman à clef, including not just Burns and Allen but also such characters as Gracie's mother and brother. (George Burns, after all, has described the couple's act as, "All I had to do was ask, 'Gracie, how's your brother?' and she talked for 38 years.") That gave the book an unusual feel, as did the comic tone of much of Gracie's dialogue. This tone suddenly shifts in a later chapter to one character's philosophically anguished speculations, and then back again to Gracie.
Author | S. S. Van Dine |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Philo Vance |
Genre | Mystery, Detective Novel, Comedy |
Publisher | Charles Scribner's |
Publication date | 1938 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 227 pp |
Preceded by | The Kidnap Murder Case |
Followed by | The Winter Murder Case |