The murder of a sadistic philanthropist sparks off an elaborate investigation led by artist and amateur criminologist Philip Trent, who had been painting the portrait of the man who was murdered. Two subsequent murders and the disappearance of an actress provide subsidiary mysteries in this inventive tale, which sees Trent in an elaborate maze created by ingenious criminal schemes.
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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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