IMPETUOUS GENTLEMAN,” HE SAID. (From a drawing by Raymond Sisley.)]

THE SCARAB MURDER CASE

A PHILO VANCE STORY

By S.S. VAN DINE

La vérité n’a point cet air impétueux.--_Boileau_.

NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS MCMXXX

[COPYRIGHT]

Copyright, 1929, 1930, by W.H. WRIGHT

[DEDICATION]

DEDICATED WITH APPRECIATION TO AMBROSE LANSING LUDLOW BULL AND HENRY A. CAREY OF THE EGYPTIAN DEPARTMENT OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

XXII. The Judgment of Anûbis Endnotes

CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK

Philo Vance

John F.-X. Markham, District Attorney of New York County.

Ernest Heath, Sergeant of the Homicide Bureau.

Dr. Mindrum W.C. Bliss, Egyptologist; head of the Bliss Museum of Egyptian Antiquities.

Benjamin H. Kyle, Philanthropist and art patron.

Meryt-Amen, Wife of Dr. Bliss.

Robert Salveter, Assistant Curator of the Bliss Museum; nephew of Benjamin H. Kyle.

Donald Scarlett, Technical Expert of the Bliss Expeditions in Egypt.

Anûpu Hani, Family retainer of the Blisses.

Brush, The Bliss butler.

Dingle, The Bliss cook.

Hennessey, Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Snitkin, Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Emery, Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Guilfoyle, Detective of the Homicide Bureau.

Captain Dubois, Finger-print expert.

Detective Bellamy, Finger-print expert.

Dr. Emanuel Doremus, Medical Examiner

Currie, Vance’s valet.

THE SCARAB MURDER CASE