Trent's Last Case: The Detective Club
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Rating | : | 4.44 (881 Votes) |
Asin | : | B073C7ML9W |
Format Type | : | |
Number of Pages | : | 493 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-01-05 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Trent's Last Case begins when millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson is murdered while on holiday in England. Called by Agatha Christie 'one of the best detective stories ever written', Trent's Last Case delights with its flesh-and-blood characters, its naturalness and easy humour, and its style, which, as Dorothy Sayers has noted, 'ranges from a vividly coloured rhetoric to a delicate and ironical literary fancy'.. A London newspaper sends Trent to investigate, and he is soon matching wits with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth as they probe ever deeper in search of a solution to a mystery filled with odd, mysterious twists and turns. Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detec