Trent's Last Case

The Detective Club

De: E. C. Bentley, Dorothy L. Sayers - afterword

Narrado por: Steven Crossley

Duración: 8 h y 31 m

Resumen del Editor

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, 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 begins when millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson is murdered while on holiday in England. 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.

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'.

©1913 Estate of E. C. Bentley; Introduction © John Curran 2017; Afterword © Estate of Dorothy L. Sayers (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The finest detective story of modern times." (G. K. Chesterton)

"A masterpiece of detective fiction." (Edgar Wallace)

" Trent's Last Case holds a very special place in the history of detective fiction. A tale of unusual brilliance and charm - startlingly original." (Dorothy L. Sayers)