S.S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance – perhaps the quintessential gentleman detective – was a hit in print and on the big screen where he was played by Basil Rathbone and William Powell, among others. He eventually came to radio in several incarnations, each making the snobbish sleuth more down to earth and likable. We’ll hear Jose Ferrer as Vance in “The Case of the Girl Who Came Back” (a rebroadcast from the Armed Forces Radio Service Mystery Playhouse). Then, Jackson Beck steps into Vance’s shoes in “The Motor Murder Case” and “The Mathematical Murder Case.”