The Bishop Murder Case (1928) is the fourth in a series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine about fictional detective Philo Vance. The detective solves a mystery built around a nursery rhyme. The Bishop Murder Case is believed to be the first nursery-rhyme mystery book.
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Famous quotes containing the words bishop and/or murder:
“The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray,
and mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)