The Scarab Murder Case

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Roman Nyman, Hubert Robert and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. A body under a fallen statue of Sakhmet, the Egyptian goddess of vengeance, in a private museum where everyone had a motive. Van Dine wrote the Philo Vance books after a two-year illness spent reading nothing but detective fiction, and they made him the best-selling author in America for a dec...