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DIAL ‘O’ FOR MURDER: S.S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance Books To Him From Oneonta To Hollywood

DIAL ‘O’ FOR MURDER S.S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance Books Took Him From Here To Hollywood By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For a time, S.S. Van Dine was the biggest thing in detective fiction. “He got famous fast,” said Michael Sharp, a Binghamton University English professor who specializes in American Crime Fiction. “He writes his first book and he immediately becomes a best-seller.” That first novel, “The Benson Murder Case,” published in 1926, is believed to…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.