New York, Apr. 12.
Mr, Willard Huntington Wright, better known under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine, author of best selling mystery stories, died here today of coronary thrombosis.
Mr. Wright, creator of Philo Vance. famous detective of all S.S. Van Dine any eventuality could be faced, id afterwards, the scene of to the adjoining build-hað mean-labour trouble was finally set-arrests having been made, as the "North-China Daily News novels, was 51 years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife with whom he lived in an elaborately furnished apartment.
After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Wright became a literary critic for numerous newspapers and magazines until his health failed him because of overwork. While recuperating in a hospital he read many detective mystery stories and decided he would try to write one better than aby of those he had read. His success? was immediate, beginning with the "Benson Murder Case" in 1926. Other Kansas City, Apr. 12. The Chief of the Federal Narcotics famous Van Dine mysteries which were to follow included the "Canary "Greene his latest, the "Gracie Allen Murder Case." off broken up a nation-wide ring of nar-h, of cetics peddlers in raids resulting in ber, thirteen arrests and seizure of more than 1,000,000 doses of various nar-
He was a frequent contributor to magazines and other periodicals on artistic and literary subjects.—United Press, New York and that several a are still to be made—United Serious Explosion at Friedrichshaven Friedrichshaven, Apr. 13.
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