Appearing in , "Trent's Last Case" is among the first classic English country murder mysteries. It's all butlers, country houses, motor-cars and dressing for dinner, sprinkled with wry observations on the manners of the wealthy, country folk, inn keepers, servants upstairs and downstairs, police inspectors, husbands, widows, American secretaries and French www.doorway.ru by: 9. In John Curran's introduction to this edition, he refers to Trent's Last Case as "one of the most famous milestones in the genre." He quotes EC Bentley from his autobiography, Those Days () where he writes "Some time in the year it occurred to me that it /5(). · The Project Gutenberg eBook of Trent’s Last Case, by E.C. Bentley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Blogger Kate Jackson at Cross Examining Crime, recently asked for the origin of Agatha Christie's blurbed praise of E. C. Bentley's landmark detective novel, Trent's Last Case: "one of the three best detective stories ever written." I can't say whether this is the actual origin, but in this praise from Christie appeared on the back panel of a dust jacket to a Knopf reprint edition of. Don't let the title fool you: Trent's Last Case is in fact the first mystery featuring Philip Trent, E.C. Bentley's gentleman of leisure turned crime reporter slash sleuth. Published in , the book is a precursor to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and Trent was repeatedly mentioned by Dorothy L. Sayers as an influence on Lord Peter Wimsey - this being, of course, the reason why I. E. C. Bentley () was an English humorist and author of mysteries. His best-known work is Trent's Last Case (), a comic mystery inspired by Bentley's frustration with the airtight solutions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. A landmark work, Trent's Last Case has been called the dawn of crime fiction's Golden Age.
Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day — particularly stories that featured infallible detectives of the Holmesian stripe — Trent's Last Case () features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong. Trent’s Last Case is the first case of its kind. In the words of E. C. Bentley from his autobiography, Those Days: “It should be possible, I thought, to write a detective story in which the detective was recognizable as a human being and was not quite so much the ‘heavy sleuth.’ Why not show up the fallibility of the Holmesian method?” Bentley’s Philip Trent is a fallible human being. E. C. Bentley (–) was an English humorist and author of mysteries. His best-known work is Trent’s Last Case (), a comic mystery inspired by Bentley’s frustration with the airtight solutions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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