The Greene Murder Case is a 1928 mystery novel by S. S. Van Dine. It focuses on the murders one by one, of the Greene family: "The holocaust that consumed the Greene family", as detective Philo Vance memorably puts it. This is the third in the series of Philo Vance whodunnits.
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