When a millionaire American financier is shot dead while on holiday in England, a London newspaper sends the fallible, but brilliant, Philip Trent to investigate. Soon he is on the case with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth, but it's an investigation filled with red herrings and as evidence mounts the solution becomes only more knotted...



E.C. Bentley (1875-1956) was a British journalist, novelist and humourist. Frustrated by the infallibility of Conan-Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, Bentley sought to reimagine detective fiction and move away from what he saw as artificiality in mystery plotting. The result was Trent's Last Case, widely praised as a novel that redefined crime writing forever, inspiring writers from Agatha Christie to G.K. Chesterton.



The finest detective story of modern times



One of the three best detective stories ever written



One of the seminal novels of the mystery genre



It shook the little world of the mystery novel like a revolution ... Every detective writer of today owes something, consciously or unconsciously, to its liberating and inspiring influence. Trent's Last Case holds a very special place in the history of detective fiction. A tale of unusual brilliance and charm - startlingly original



Its influence on the Golden Age is unquestionable... a small act of sabotage