New York City, 1920's. Prohibition in full swing. Organized crime opening nightclubs all around Broadway. A beautiful performer popularly called "The Canary" is found strangled in her apartment and the D.A. calls in an old friend named Philo Vance to help solve a murder that looks impossible to solve. This was the second of S.S. Van Dine's murder mysteries and one of the best ever written, according to a number of critics. 

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