The New Leader, November 4th, 1985
WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT called it "a straightaway detective story which might almost be used as a model for this type of fiction." Better known as S.S. Van Dine, creator of the Philo Vance novels, he was giving his expert opinion of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the last work started by Charles Dickens. It was published in installments during the spring of 1870, but Dickens died before writing the second half. Another expert, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie's most famous rival, regretted that Edgar Allan Poe had died 21 years earlier, because in her eyes the man who wrote "The Murders in ...
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