Ex-Library; 16 oz.; 349 pages; Ex library HC no DJ hinges cracked aged few spots solid reading copy '29 P. F. Collier & Son Spider Web Cover Design. Had it not been for the fact that Philo Vance's insatiable mind and unique analytic methods caused him to become absorbed in a criminal mystery that threw the entire nation into a state of gruesome excitement, the series of uncanny, bizarre, and sinster events that constituted the Bishop murder case would probably never have come to light.