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The Canary of the title is Margaret Odell, once a showgirl in the Ziegfeld Follies, more recently an occasional nightclub singerl. When she is murdered, there are any number of suspects, all of the male variety. The police are baffled but Philo Vance is on the scene, ready to apply his brilliance, his erudition, his astonishingly nuanced grasp of human nature to the solving of the crime. The Canary Murder Case -- INTRODUCTORY -- CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK -- CHAPTER ONE The "Canary" -- CHAPTER TWO Footprints in the Snow (Sunday, September 9) -- CHAPTER THREE The Murder (Tuesday, September 11 -- 8.30 a.m.) -- CHAPTER FOUR The Print of a Hand (Tuesday, September 11 -- 9.30 a.m.) -- CHAPTER FIVE The Bolted Door (Tuesday, September 11 -- 10.30 a.m.) -- CHAPTER SIX A Call for Help (Tuesday, September 11 -- 11 a.m.) -- CHAPTER SEVEN A Nameless Visitor (Tuesday, September 11 -- 11.15 a.m.) -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Invisible Murderer (Tuesday, September 11 -- 11.45 a.m.) -- CHAPTER NINE The Pack in Full Cry (Tuesday, September 11 -- afternoon) -- CHAPTER TEN A Forced Interview (Tuesday, September 11 -- 8 p.m.) -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Seeking Information (Tuesday, September 11 -- 9 p.m.) -- CHAPTER TWELVE Circumstantial Evidence (Wednesday, September 12 -- 9 a.m.) -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN An Erstwhile Gallant (Wednesday, September 12 -- 10.30 a.m.) -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Vance Outlines a Theory (Wednesday, September 12 -- evening) -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Four Possibilities (Wednesday, September 12 -- evening) -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Significant Disclosures (Thursday, September 13 -- forenoon) -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Checking an Alibi (Thursday, September 13 -- afternoon) -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Trap (Friday, September 14 -- noon) -- CHAPTER NINETEEN The Doctor Explains (Friday, September 14 -- 2 p.m.) -- CHAPTER TWENTY A Midnight Witness (Friday, September 14 -- 3.30 p.m.) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A Contradiction in Dates (Saturday, September 15 -- 9 a.m.) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A Telephone Call (Saturday, September 15 -- 10 a.m.) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Ten O'clock Appointment (Sunday, September 16 -- 10 a.m.) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR An Arrest (Sunday, p.m., Monday, a.m. -- September 16-17) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Vance Demonstrates (Monday, September 17 -- 11.30 a.m.).
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