{"product_id":"trents-last-case-9780008333904","title":"Trent's Last Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrent's Last Case begins when millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson is murdered while on holiday in England. A London newspaper sends Trent to investigate, and he is soon matching wits with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth as they probe ever deeper in search of a solution to a mystery filled with odd, mysterious twists and turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled by Agatha Christie \"one of the best detective stories ever written,\" Trent's Last Case delights with its flesh-and-blood characters, its naturalness and easy humor, and its style, which, as Dorothy Sayers has noted, \"ranges from a vividly coloured rhetoric to a delicate and ironical literary fancy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Collins Crime Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780008333904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"E. C. Bentley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403333169333,"sku":"9780008333904","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b593fc27-0b40-46fa-9b39-fa66140d6f9e.jpg?v=1774968807","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/trents-last-case-9780008333904","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}