Willard Huntington Wright

The only record of these earlier tumblings is written on the flyleaf of a first edition of THE GREAT DETECTIVE S.ORIES. edited by Willard Huntington Wright (S.S. Van Dine), and published in 1927, one year before we actually began our first collaborative novel.

In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864

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In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864

The mystery-writer Willard Huntington Wright, better known by his pen name S.S. Van Dine, endowed his Oxford-educated detective Philo Vance with the pausers I say and don't y'know, the last not entirely rhetorical since his interlocutors usually didn't know at all.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991

THE GREAT MODERN FRENCH STORIES edited by _Willard Huntington Wright_

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915