Trent's Last Case
A Crime, Fiction, Mystery book. Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew). (1913). ****. I remember trying to read this widely praised detective novel about forty years...
Written in reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction.A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? The artist and amateur detective Philip Trent arrives to find that there is more to the case than the solving of a puzzle: he must also accept his own fallibility, in detection and in romance. The only edition available in print, Trent's Last Case is the prototype of the modern detective novel.
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Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew). (1913). ****. I remember trying to read this widely praised detective novel about forty years ago, but wa put off by the style of writing used by the author. Forty years later, Im better able to recognize temporal differences and preferences in style and successfully finished the novel. Bentley wrote... Although I liked the writing, I did not warm to Trent at all. The murderer turned out to be who I suspected from very early on in the book, and I did not appreciate the romance side of it at all. E. C. Bentley was a member, and for a time, the President, of the Detection Club. The Detection Club was a group of English mystery writers who met regularly for dinner and talk in London. Dorothy Sayers, another member of the club, is one of my favorites. I read the WOMAN IN BLACK because I wanted to read some the other mystery writers...
