The Complete Trent Case Book (3-books-in-1)

"The finest detective story of modern times" – G.K. Chesterton

Trent's Last Case (aka The Woman in Black) has attained cult status as being the first book to almost spoof the genre it exists in. Bentley wrote it "to show up the infallibility of the Holmesian method" where the detective can get it completely wrong.

Sigsbee Manderson an American tycoon is found dead at his English country house. Artist and amateur detective Philip Trent arrives to find that there is more to the case than the solving of puzzles like: why was Manderson not wearing his false teeth? Why is his young widow so relieved at his death? But he must also accept his own fallibility, in detection and in love.