The Benson Murder Case
The complete audio adaptation of The Benson Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine (1926), Philo Vance's first case: a locked-room murder. Not an audiobook or a summary, but the original, integral adaptation of the work in single-voice narration. A classic deductive mystery, noir atmosphere of the 1920s.
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This episode is currently narrated in Italian. An English-narrated version is on its way.
Audio · PodcastEpisode 1 · 28:47 · in Italian
Videoin Italian · horizontal and vertical
The author
S.S. Van Dine is the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939), a refined American art critic. During a long convalescence he devoured hundreds of detective novels and codified their rules; he then created Philo Vance, the aesthete detective. The Benson Murder Case (1926) is his first case. A work in the public domain.
Original adaptation of a public-domain work. © 2026 VOX·ARIA, INDEX A. Every recording carries provenance metadata and an imperceptible watermark for traceability.