Trents Last Case (1913) - E. C. Bentley
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Simon Vance
Tags: Mystery, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Philip Trent Series, Book 1 Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins Originally Published: 1999 Publisher: Tantor Audio , 2007, First published as The Woman in Black it is considered by many to be the first modern mystery novel, Trents Last Case introduces the gentleman sleuth Philip Trent, a freelance reporter and investigator., On Wall Street, the mere mention of the name Sigsbee Manderson is enough to send a stock soaringor bring it tumbling back to earth. Feared but not loved, Manderson has no one to mourn him when the gardener at his British country estate finds him facedown in the dirt, a bullet buried in his brain. There are bruises on his wrist and blood on his clothes, but no clue that will lead the police to the murderer. It will take an amateur toinadvertentlyshow them the way., Cheerful, charming, and always eager for a mystery, portrait artist and gentleman sleuth Philip Trent leaps into the Manderson affair with all the passion of the autodidact. Simply by reading the newspapers, he disc
