Trent's Last Case (Version 2)
Author: first_name: Edmund Clerihew
last_name: Bentley
Language: English
Year: 1913

This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent.<br/><br/>

In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee Manderson for a large London newspaper. The victim is an unpopular and extremely powerful financial tycoon, who is murdered virtually within sight of his own house, at a time when it seems impossible that anyone there – to say nothing of all of its more than half dozen inhabita