The Greene Murder Case

The victims of this criminal tragedy are the members of an old wealthy New York family living in an ancient walled-in mansion near the East River. A pall of tragic horror suddenly descends on the household; and such terrible consequences ensue that the Greene murder case immediately becomes one of the greatest sensations in American police annals. The gloomy Greene mansion is the scene of a double tragedy. The eldest sister is shot and killed, the youngest, a sister by adoption, is wounded by an unknown intruder. While Philo Vance and his friend Markham, the district attorney, are at work on the case the two Greene brothers are killed. This leaves alive in the sinister household the mother, who is a helpless invalid, Sibella her daughter, and Ada the adopted sister. It is Philo Vance, debonair psycho-sleuth and intimate friend of the district attorney, who eventually solves the problem by his unique psychological methods of deduction.