Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)

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12
Narrator
5
Release Date
January 2016
Duration
7 hours 5 minutes
Summary
Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the same time the first major send-up of that very genre: Not only does Trent fall in love with one of the primary suspects - usually considered a no-no - he also, after painstakingly collecting all the evidence, draws all the wrong conclusions. Convinced that he has tracked down the murderer of a business tycoon who was shot in his mansion, he is told by the real perpetrator over dinner what mistakes in the logical deduction of the solution of the crime he has made. On hearing what really happened, Trent vows that he will never again attempt to dabble in crime detection. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Anonymous

I really liked this detective story. Philip Trent, an artist who is also known for his ability as a detective, is asked to investigate a murder of a man who is in high finance. His attention to detail in investigating helps him to discover clues his policeman friend has missed. However, in this case, Trent finds he has emotions mixed in with his detective skills. And then is torn whether to report his findings or to withhold them for the sake of the widow’s reputation. But those emotions seem to have confused the issue too much, which leads to his final declaration that this will be his last case. The narration is okay. The South Asian reader could do with more research into English pronunciation. It just makes it difficult to work out what has been said and so alters understanding of the meaning.

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Margaret T.

The book was great for the first half of the chapters. Then a narrator started with a accent that you couldn't understand what she was saying.

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