"One of the few genuine classics of detective fiction." —
The New York Times. Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day — particularly stories that featured infallible detectives of the Holmesian stripe —
Trent's Last Case (1913) 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.
The 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." New Introduction by Douglas G. Greene.
Reprint of a standard edition.
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ISBN 10 | 0486296873 |
ISBN 13 | 9780486296876 |
Author/Editor | E. C. Bentley |
Format | Book |
Page Count | 176 |
Dimensions | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 |