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Title
Trent intervenes

Author
E.C. Bentley

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
House of Stratus

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20080923

Description

Artist, connoisseur and private detective, Philip Trent, features in this classic and unputdownable collection, comprising eleven short stories. Included are 'The Genuine Tabard', in which a clergyman and unique objets d'art are involved in a neat confidence trick; 'The Foolproof Lift', in which a blackmailing valet is found murdered; and 'The Ordinary Hairpins', in which a golden-haired opera singer commits suicide - but Trent is wisely suspicious.

E.C. Bentley was born in 1875 and educated at St Paul's School, London, where he met eminent critic and author G K Chesterton, who became his closest friend. Bentley began a lifelong career in journalism in 1902, working for ten years on the editorial staff of the Daily News and for a further twenty years on the Daily Telegraph. In 1905, he published 'Biography for Beginners' (under the pseudonym E Clerihew), which was a volume of nonsense verse consisting of four-lines and called 'Clerihews' (in his honour), which became as popular as the limerick form. Two further volumes followed in 1929 and 1939. Bentley's masterpiece, 'Trent's Last Case' (1913), was written in exasperation at the infallibility of Sherlock Holmes and marked the beginning of a new era in detective fiction. Indeed, it has long been hailed as marking the start of the 'Golden Age of Crime Fiction' and the first truly modern mystery. The sequel, 'Trent's Own Case', did not appear for a further twenty three years and this was then followed by a book of short stories; 'Trent Intervenes'. Of 'Trent's Last Case' Agatha Christie wrote: 'One of the three best detective stories ever written', whilst Dorothy L Sayers stated 'It is the one detective story of the present century which I am certain will go down to posterity as a classic. It is a masterpiece'.

Type
BOOK

Edition
New edition 0

Keyword Index
Trent, Philip (Fictitious character) - Fiction.|Criminologists - Great Britain - Fiction.|Artists - Great Britain - Fiction.|Detective and mystery stories, English.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
240

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