A review by rouge_red
The Canary Murder Case by Willard Huntington Wright, S.S. Van Dine

mysterious slow-paced

3.0

Rough start because there was a lot of flipping back and forth between the story and footnotes, but the notes lessened as we got into the book, so this is only a minor gripe. The story was actually pretty interesting and took its time in a satisfying way. Philo Vance is a character and not entirely unlikeable, even though he's definitely a showoff. Not a bad book and I could read more, but the intro does say the books become less interesting so...unless I'm really hankering for another mystery writer to read, I'll probably go elsewhere.