Trent's Last CaseThe first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house. But why is he not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? Artist and amateur detective Philip Trent arrives to find that there is more to the case than the solving of a puzzle; he must also accept his own fallibility, in detection and in romance... |
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INTRODUCTION | 9 |
Bad News | 35 |
Knocking the Town Endways | 45 |
Copyright | |
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