Trent's Last Case by E C Bentley

Trent's Last Case by E C Bentley

When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson - 'the lady in black' - has a disarming effect on the refreshingly fallible and imaginative Trent, in this classic detective story that twists and turns as a result of the irresistible combination of ingenious deductions and misplaced assumptions. - 'One of the three best detective stories ever written' Agatha Christie. 'It is the one detective story of the present century which I am certain will go down to posterity as a classic. It is a masterpiece' Dorothy L Sayers

Bentley was born in 1875 and educated at St Paul's School in London, where he met and became friends with famed critic and author G K Chesterton. Bentley began a long career in journalism in 1902, serving on the editorial staff of the Daily News for 10 years and the Daily Telegraph for another twenty. He wrote Biography for Beginners (using the alias E Clerihew) in 1905, which was a collection of four-line nonsense verse dubbed Clerihews (in his honor), which became as popular as the limerick form. In 1929 and 1939, two more volumes were published. Trent's Final Case (1913), Bentley's masterpiece, was created in irritation at Sherlock Holmes' infallibility and heralded the start of a new age in detective fiction.

Indeed, it has long been considered as the first really modern mystery and the beginning of the 'Golden Era of Crime Fiction.' Trent's Own Case, the sequel, didn't come out for another twenty-three years, and was subsequently followed by Trent Intervenes, a collection of short stories. Agatha Christie called Trent's Final Case one of the three best detective stories ever written, and Dorothy L Sayers said, It is the one detective story of the twenty-first century that I am positive will go down to posterity as a classic. It's a work of art.

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ISBN 13	9780755103270
ISBN 10	0755103270
Title	Trent's Last Case
Author	E C Bentley
Series	Philip Trent
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	House of Stratus
Year published	2001-06-30
Number of pages	240
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