Trent’s Last Case : Book 1

Trent’s Last Case : Book 1Author: Bentley, E. C. Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Published on 6 August 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers (Collins Crime Club) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Philip Trent' series. Paperback 224 pages 130 x 196 x 18 156g Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all too human detective who not only falls in love with the chief

Author: Bentley, E. C.

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 6 August 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers (Collins Crime Club) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Philip Trent' series.

Paperback | 224 pages
130 x 196 x 18 | 156g

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong.

Trent’s Last Case begins when millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson is murdered while on holiday in England. A London newspaper sends Trent to investigate, and he is soon matching wits with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth as they probe ever deeper in search of a solution to a mystery filled with odd, mysterious twists and turns.

Called by Agatha Christie 'one of the best detective stories ever written,' Trent's Last Case delights with its flesh-and-blood characters, its naturalness and easy humor, and its style, which, as Dorothy Sayers has noted, 'ranges from a vividly coloured rhetoric to a delicate and ironical literary fancy.'