Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black - Hardcover

Bentley, E C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781390533 ISBN 13: 9781781390535

Publisher: Oxford City Press, 2012

Synopsis

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any substance that breaks all the rules of the genre: Trent falls in love with one of the primary suspects, and even worse than that, after painstakingly collecting all the evidence, he comes to the the wrong conclusions. This book is a gripping and fascinating story, a mystery that is supposedly solved half way through the book, and then it gets even more interesting. Full of twists and turns, it is a satisfying psychological mystery that unravels. No wonder that it has been made into a film three times.

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About the Author:

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875-March 30, 1956) was an English humorist and novelist. Oxford educated, he worked as a journalist for a number of London papers including The Daily Telegraph. He invented a form of humorous biographical verse called the clerihew. Encouraged by his friend G. K. Chesterton to write a mystery novel he wrote Trent’s Last Case (1913). He also wrote a sequel Trent’s Own Case in 1936 as well as a series of short stories involving the character. He was president of the Detection Club which included some of the most famous mystery writers of the day from 1936 to 1949 and wrote for their radio serials in 1930 and 1931.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford City Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781390533
• ISBN 13: 9781781390535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174