The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Mystery [Mass Market Paperback]

S. S. Van Dine (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; First Thus edition (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684181592
• ISBN-13: 978-0684181592
• ASIN: B0018WN40W
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,293,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best of the Philo Vance Mysteries, February 22, 2002

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Ramona Honan "reviews-by-melva" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The SCARAB MURDER CASE (Scribner crime classics) (Board book)

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.