When a powerful American millionaire is found murdered, Philip TrentEnglish painter, poetry lover, and amateur detectivedelves into the crime. While uncovering three different, plausible solutions to the murder, he comes…

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…

Identified by Dorothy L. Sayers as the first modern mystery novel. Author E.C. Bentley was primarily a newspaperman.

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…

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