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Trent's Last Case (Detective Club Crime Classics)

Bentley, E.C.

Collins Crime Club

Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case. 
Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods even if the criminal sometimes escapes. 
Trent Intervenes affirms Bentley's reputation as an author of the first rank and displays his ability to write equally well in the short story form.

Trent Intervenes (Detective Club Crime Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Amused, but confident that he can beat a clumsy attempt to frame him for murder, Philip Trent is astonished when one of his best friends confesses to the crime

Trent’s Own Case (Detective Club Crime Classics)

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."

Trent’s Last Case (Detective Club Crime Classics)

Genre Fiction

Trent’s Last Case (Philip Trent) (Book 1)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Philip Trent (2) TrentS Own Case

Trent's Last Case (Black Widow Thriller)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

The First Clerihews

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The complete clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

Oxford University Press

Written in reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction. A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? The artist and amateur detective Philip Trent arrives to find that there is more to the case than the solving of a puzzle: he must also accept his own fallibility, in detection and in romance. The only edition available in print, Trent's Last Case is the prototype of the modern detective novel.

Trent's Last Case (Oxford Popular Fiction)

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