description: Written in 1912 as a light-hearted 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.When a powerful and ruthless American millionaire is found murdered in his English country garden, Philip Trent--English painter, poetry lover, and amateur detective--delves into the crime. He successively uncovers three different, plausible solutions to the murder, and in the process, comes face to face with his own fallibility, in detection and in romance.
language: English
title: Trent's Last Case
titlecomplete: Trent's Last Case
characters: Philip Trent, Calvin Bunner, Martin (Trent's Last Case), Mabel Manderson, Nathaniel Burton Cupples, John Marlowe, Inspector Murch
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Classics, 20th Century, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3725
places: England, United Kingdom
series: Philip Trent
publisher: Blackstone Publishing