Letter to Seymour Halpern, 1929 August 2.

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Letter to Seymour Halpern, 1929 August 2.

Van Dine declines to identify "the most mysterious murder case" as "History is full of mysterious murders, and in modern times there have been many crimes which contain astonishing elements of mystery."

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University of Virginia. Library

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Halpern, Seymour, 1913-1997

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Seymour Halpern (November 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he notably served as the U.S. Representative from New York's 4th (1959-1963) and 6th (1963-1973) congressional districts. Born in New York City, he graduated from Richmond Hill High School and attended Seth Low College of Columbia University from 1932 to 1934. Halpern worked as a newspaper reporter in New York and Chicago from 1931 to 1933 and also engaged in the insurance busi...

Van Dine, S. S. 1888-1939

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The majority of this correspondence is written under the name Willard H. Wright, which is S. S. Van Dine's real name. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1912-1916. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155895028 Educated in California and at Harvard, Willard Huntington Wright became editor of THE SMART SET (1913-1914). After suffering a serious illness in 1925, he turned to writing detective novels under the pseudonym of "S. S. ...