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The Benson Murder Case Opens a Cased Tale
In a vivid 1920s New York scene Alvin Benson is found shot in his West Forty-eighth Street home. The district attorney Markham enlists the help of the mysterious Vance narrator as the homicide investigation begins, promising drama, psychology, and a clash of rival claims to truth.
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Alvin H. Benson
Philo Vance
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Kessler Galleries
Harvard
van Dine and Davis
van Dine
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Broadway
Europe
Cezannes
Davis
Benson
Alvin Benson
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Withal
Oxford
John Barrymore
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England
Stuyvesant
Carrie
New York
John F. X. Markham
New York County
Independent Reform
Tammany Hall
Markham
Benson’s
Stuyvesant Club
Markman
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Telegraph Bureau
Major Benson
Alvin
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