Gracie Allen breaks the Philo Phormula in a number of ways.
Allen\'s delicious Ditzy Blonde persona to the page, and she makes a charming foil for Philo\'s evergreen erudition..
So do all these departures pay off? We\'d be lying if we said that Gracie hits every single mark, but Van Dine does a surprisingly entertaining job of translating Ms.
Gracie\'s centrality is no accident: Van Dine wrote the story as a vehicle for Allen, and actually created the novel only after the film had come out.
And then there\'s that character: Gracie Allen was a very real, much-loved comedienne in the 1930s, famous for her double act with George Burns, and in fact the plot revolves around her.
First is its title: this is the only book in the series to modify "Murder Case" with more than one word, much less with the name of a character.
Gracie Allen breaks the Philo Phormula in a number of ways
