Stephen Van Dine is a world-famous American writer, one of the founders of the classic detective. “The Wicked Genius of New York” is the best of his works.
In the city, some maniac casually commits elaborate murders, leaving messages at the scene in the form of children’s rhymes. He is smart, calculating, ruthless and... elusive. Newspapers filled with monstrous headlines stoke fear. The townspeople are in panic. And only the detective Philo Vance, armed with logic and calmness, seems to know how to stop the wicked genius…