Trent Intervenes & Other Stories: 3 - Brossura

Bentley, Edmund Clerihew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755103262 ISBN 13: 9780755103263

Casa editrice: House of Stratus, 2008

Riassunto

Artist, connoisseur and private detective, Philip Trent, features in this classic and unputdownable collection, comprising eleven short stories. Included are 'The Genuine Tabard', in which a clergyman and unique objets d'art are involved in a neat confidence trick; 'The Foolproof Lift', in which a blackmailing valet is found murdered; and 'The Ordinary Hairpins', in which a golden-haired opera singer commits suicide - but Trent is wisely suspicious.

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L'autore:

E.C. Bentley was born in 1875 and educated at St. Paul’s School, London, where he met eminent critic and author G. K. Chesterton, who became his closest friend. Bentley began a lifelong career in journalism in 1902, working for ten years on the editorial staff of the Daily News and twenty years on the Daily Telegraph. In 1905, he published Biography for Beginners (under the pseudonym E. Clerihew), which was a volume of nonsense verse consisting of four lines, called Clerihews, in his honor. Two further volumes followed in 1929 and 1939 and Bentley’s masterpiece, Trent’s Last Case (1913), was written in exasperation at the infallibility of Sherlock Holmes and marked the beginning of a new era in detective fiction. Indeed, it has long been hailed as marking the start of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction and the first truly modern mystery.

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• Editore: House of Stratus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0755103262
• ISBN 13: 9780755103263
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240