Phileas Fogg Mystery Series - The Green Family Murder Case

Author: (American) Van Dine
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Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Over 80 million copies sold worldwide, with film adaptations starring a host of Hollywood stars like Brooks and Powell. The Philo Vance Mysteries set a world record for book sales in the 1920s and 1930s, becoming one of the few economic miracles during the U.S. Great Depression after World War I and ushering in the golden age of American mystery novels. The film adaptations were among the most box office hits of the era, with stars like Brooks and Powell gaining fame for playing the lead roles. In the novels, there are many magnificent scenes of heavy snowfall. From our literary memory, the most famous might be the scene in Water Margin where Lin Chong sets fire to the hay shed, kills his enemy Lu Yuhou, and officially flees to Liangshan. In the memory of mystery novels, the murder case in The Greenmantle Murder on a snowy New York night might be the best snow scene in mystery history. Even better, the clever and cunning Van Dine skillfully utilizes this heavy snow. Written in 1928, The Greenmantle Murder is Van Dine, known as the father of American classic mystery, at his peak, and naturally one of the best American classic mystery novels to this day. The plot of this book is inspired by a brilliant work in Sherlock Holmes Short Stories by Conan Doyle, but it is skillfully transformed to fit the special scenes in the book seamlessly, without any trace of artificiality. It is even more natural and imaginative than the original works of Conan Doyle.