"This man was a young social aristocrat, whom, for purposes of anonymity, I have chosen to call Philo Vance."
Thus S. S.Van Dine introduces his famous detective in "The 'Canary' Murder Case," the second in the series of novels. One wonders, if his name was not really Philo Vance, what it was. Perhaps somewhere else in the novels Van Dine reveals this mystery, but I have not yet seen it.
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