S. S. Van Dine

S.S. Van Dine was the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), an American art critic and author who became one of the most popular mystery writers of the 1920s and 1930s. His books and audiobooks include The Benson Murder Case, the first in his Philo Vance detective series, which features an erudite, aristocratic sleuth solving murders in New York City. Van Dine's elaborate plotting and intellectual puzzles defined the golden age of American detective fiction, and his audiobooks introduce classic mystery to modern listeners.