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Review title: Worth reading but not Van Dine's best one
Product review: It is as usual a mind-boggling case, for which the General Attorney Markham and Sgt. Heath, who are officially in charge of the investigation, have no explanation. A man disappears after diving in a pond named after a dragon in the midst of a party. His body is nowhere to find. An eccentric woman believes that the man has been abducted by a Dragon, giving credence to an old superstion. It will be the task of the great sleuth Vance to unravel the mistery in a purely rational manner. This is the only whodunit by Van Dine whose culprit I could guess straightaway from the very beginning (but I won't mention here the name in order not to spoil the future reader's pleasure). It lacks to some extent the complexity of the plot that accounts for the beauty and the crux of Van Dine's most successful stories (The Canary Murder Case, The Scarab Murder Case). Readable but if you have already read Van Dine's best cases not the kind of book I would hotly recommend.
