Written 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.
Trent’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.
Called 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."
© 2017 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780008216283
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 augusti 2017
Written 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.
Trent’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.
Called 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."
© 2017 HarperCollins (Ljudbok): 9780008216283
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 10 augusti 2017
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Eva
18 apr. 2021
Great story! Or I think so, I kept dropping out of attention because for most of it, the narrator read it like it was the shipping forecast: Sentence. Sentence. Another sentence. Sentence. Etc. (NB random enthusiastic stressing of anything would be no better, the narrator needs to work out what is going on in the story and make it flow!)
Sanyin
17 maj 2021
Book #1, narrator a bit to stiff. Listened at 1.1x, made it a little better.
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