Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley
"Trent's Last Case" by E. C. Bentley is a detective novel published in 1913. When wealthy American plutocrat Sigsbee Manderson is found shot dead at his English country estate, artist and amateur detective Philip Trent investigates the mysterious circumstances. But this groundbreaking whodunit subverts genre conventions: Trent falls in love with a prime suspect and, despite meticulously gathering evidence, draws completely wrong conclusions. The novel revolutionized detective fiction by offering the first
major send-up of the genre itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 |
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| Title | Trent's Last Case |
| Note | Other titles (American): The Woman in Black. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent%27s_Last_Case_(novel) |
| Credits | Stuart E. Thiel and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject | Trent, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 2568 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2001 |
| Most Recently Updated | May 21, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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