Trents Last Case

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.