🎉Happy Birthday to #SSVanDine, pen name of Willard Huntington, #bornonthisday in 1888! He helped shape Golden Age detective fiction. His brilliant amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, solved intricate murders through psychology, art, philosophy, and logic. #CrimeFiction

"There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better."

✒ #SSVanDine (pen name of art critic Willard Huntington Wright), American author and critic, was #BOTD 15 October 1888. #Literature