Trent's last case (The woman in black): a story of crime

✍ Scribed by Bentley, Edmund Clerihew;Curran, John;Sayers, Dorothy Leigh

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Collins Crime Club
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Series: Detective Club
• Edition: Detective Story Club edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain.
• ISBN: 0008260311

✦ Synopsis

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."

✦ Subjects

Great Britain