The "Canary" Murder Case

About “The "Canary" Murder Case”

The Canary Murder Case is a 1927 novel by Willard Huntington Wright, described as a classic whodunit mystery dealing with the murder of a nightclub singer, with Philo Vance as investigator. Margaret Odell, a Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary," is found murdered in her apartment, having had a number of men in her life, from high society to gangsters, more than one of whom visited that night.