Timeline
Lifetime:
1875 -
1956
Passed: ≈
68 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Books by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)
Crime
Humour
Mystery
Detective
Murder
Love
Mystery
Crime
Romance
Satire
Solution
Gentleman
Suspect
Evidence
Whodunit
Sleuth
Deduction
Mistake
Perpetrator
Wrong
Conclusion
Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the same time the first maj...
Trent's Last Case
Crime
Fiction
Mystery
Detective
Murder
Mystery
England
Unpopular victim
Troubled marriage
Complex plot
Boxes within boxes
Erudite
Financial tycoon
Seaside village
Trent's Last Case is a classic detective novel by E. C. Bentley, featuring the highly erudite artist and reporter, Philip Trent. When Sigsbee Manderson, an unpopular and extremely powerful financial tycoon, is murdered in a charming English seaside v...