Trents Last Case, E.C. Bentley
Trents Last Case, E.C. Bentley
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Trents Last Case

Author: E.C. Bentley

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2009


Synopsis

Written in 1912 as a lighthearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trents Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully selfmocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction. When a powerful and ruthless American millionaire is found murdered in his English country garden, Philip TrentEnglish painter, poetry lover, and amateur detective delves into the crime. He successively uncovers three different, plausible solutions to the murder, and in the process, comes face to face with his own fallibility, in detection and in romance.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on November 01, 2018

Me ha gustado y recordado en parte a los libros de Agatha Christie, solo que este detective es algo peculiar.......more

This story, about 100 years old, has some interesting facets beyond the plot. - Agatha Christie was a big fan. - It was the first, not the last, Trent story written by Bentley - Other Trent stories followed - It has been considered a new model for detective fiction - Almost everything is presented from......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 06, 2008

Perhaps the first "cosy" detective story. Has the distinction of being lauded by Dorothy Sayers and derided by Raymond Chandler. The plot is clever, and still works today, even if the setting seems alien to the modern reader. Extra points from me because E.C. Bentley was my great grandfather.......more

Goodreads review by Libros Prestados on January 05, 2018

No hay nada como comenzar el año con un buen libro. Desde el punto de vista actual esta novela no tiene nada que sorprenda mucho, pero fue un punto de inflexión en el género cuando se publicó (al menos en el mundo anglosajón). Acostumbrados a detectives racionales y siempre acertados como el Holmes d......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on June 01, 2022

E.C. Bentley nos relata un asesinato y la investigación que el periodista a tiempo parcial, Philip Trent, lleva a cabo. Trent es listo y perspicaz, pero no es infalible. En la trama de la novela se intercala una historia de amor. La caracterización de la personalidad de cada personaje está bien cread......more