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The Kennel Murder Case - Definition and Overview |
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The Kennel Murder Case is a 1932 murder mystery novel that has a terrific first half (Chapters 1 - 10), with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex, coincidence-laden, locked room murder. After this the book runs out of steam, and seems padded.
According to the 1936 introduction to the novel, in the omnibus Philo Vance Murder Cases, the two halves were written nearly a year apart. Several real life friends of author S. S. Van Dine appear as themselves in the second half of the novel.
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