Trent's Last Case

Trent's Last Case (U.K.) or The Woman in Black (U.S.)  (1913)  by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Chapter 1: Bad News→

information about this edition.  sister projects: Wikipedia article. Trent's Last Case is the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel has a unique place in the history of detective fiction because it is the first major send-up of the genre.— Excerpted from Trent's Last Case on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents

• Chapter 1: Bad News
• Chapter 2: Knocking the Town Endways
• Chapter 3: Breakfast
• Chapter 4: Handcuffs in the Air
• Chapter 5: Poking About
• Chapter 6: Mr Bunner on the Case
• Chapter 7: The Lady in Black
• Chapter 8: The Inquest
• Chapter 9: A Hot Scent
• Chapter 10: The Wife of Dives
• Chapter 11: Hitherto Unpublished
• Chapter 12: Evil Days
• Chapter 13: Eruption
• Chapter 14: Writing a Letter
• Chapter 15: Double Cunning
• Chapter 16: The Last Straw

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1956, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 50 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.