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Benson Murder Case Footnotes in Distant Mansion
In a New York district attorney led investigation, Alvin Benson lies dead in his mansion study, a pistol wound to the forehead, as officials including John F X Markham Major Anthony Benson and a team of detectives begin the inquiry. The scene shows garish opulence with paintings, a piano, and a carved mantel as police reconstruct the homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philo Vance
John F.X. Markham
Atorney
New York County
Alvin H. Benson
Wall Street
Anthony Benson
Anna Platz
Alvin Benson
Maurice Dinwiddie
Ernest Heath
Burke
Lnitkin
Emery
Ben Hanson
Phelps, Tracy, Springer, Higginbotham
District Atorney
Carl Hagan
Doremus
Frank Swacker
Currie
Sistant
Dinwiddie
Markham
O’brien
Police Department
Vance
Myself
Benson
Inspector Moran
Sergeant Heath
Heath
Health
O'Brien
Moran
District Attorney’s Office