The Library After Dark

Mystery

Trent’s Last Case

by E. C. Bentley

An American financier is found shot in the garden of his English country house, and the painter and amateur detective Philip Trent solves it with dazzling logic. Bentley wrote it in 1913 partly to show that great detectives could be fallible. Say no more; the title is a clue.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hours
Where to find it
The secret bookcase in the west wing
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #2568. In the public domain in the United States.

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