The Man of Promise

WRIGHT, Willard Huntington

Verlag: John Lane Co, New York, 1916

Beschreibung

First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth binding with stamped, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Author's first novel who later wrote novels as S.S. Van Dine. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful. Near Fine. Binding tight. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33736

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Man of Promise

Verlag: John Lane Co, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1916

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1st Edition.