Trent's Last Case

When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death?

The newly widowed Mabel Manderson – ‘the lady in black’ – has a disarming effect on the refreshingly fallible and imaginative Trent, in this classic detective story that twists and turns as a result of the irresistible combination of ingenious deductions and misplaced assumptions.

 

‘One of the three best detective stories ever written’ - Agatha Christie.

 

‘It is the one detective story of the present [20th] century which I am certain will go down to posterity as a classic. It is a masterpiece’ - Dorothy L Sayers.   ­­       E C Bentley