Trent’s Last Case
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2023
Language: eng
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Trent, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Fiction; Mystery
Description: <p>When the Wall Street giant Sigsbee Manderson is found dead, the local newspaper sends in Philip Trent, its favorite contract journalist/amateur detective, to investigate and report on the case. Trent encounters a paucity of facts on the ground, but the ones he does find leads him to a conclusion he’s unsure of how to handle.</p> <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-c-bentley">E. C. Bentley</a> was a close friend of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, to whom he dedicated this book (in response to Chesterton’s dedicating <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/the-man-who-was-thursday">The Man Who Was Thursday</a></i> to him). The book is said to have been one of the first “modern” mysteries, and included <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-l-sayers">Dorothy Sayers</a> and <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie">Agatha Christie</a> among its fans.</p>