Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods even if the criminal sometimes escapes.Trent Intervenes affirms Bentley's reputation as an author of the first rank and displays his ability to write equally well in the short story form.
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E. C. Bentley. Trent Intervenes
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INTRODUCTION
PREFACE. MEET TRENT
I. THE GENUINE TABARD
II. THE SWEET SHOT
III. THE CLEVER COCKATOO
IV. THE VANISHING LAWYER
V. THE INOFFENSIVE CAPTAIN
VI. TRENT AND THE FOOL-PROOF LIFT
VII. THE OLD-FASHIONED APACHE
VIII. TRENT AND THE BAD DOG
IX. THE PUBLIC BENEFACTOR
X. THE LITTLE MYSTERY
XI. THE UNKNOWN PEER
XII. THE ORDINARY HAIRPINS
XIII. THE MINISTERING ANGEL
Footnote. INTRODUCTION
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A few miles short of Abingdon the chauffeur was told to go slowly. ‘You tell me it was not very far this side of Abingdon, Mr Langley, that you turned off the main road,’ the superintendent said. ‘If you will keep a lookout now, you might be able to point out the spot.’
Langley stared at him. ‘Why, doesn’t your man have a map?’
