Trent's Own Case [SEP] series
Trent's Own Case
Trent's Own Case is a 1936 British detective novel written by E.C. Bentley (in collaboration with H. Warner Allen) as a sequel to his best-known novel "Trent's Last Case".
The artist and amateur criminologist, Philip Trent, investigates the murder of a sadistic philanthropist whose portrait he had painted. But there are many false paths and blind alleys in the case, and it is not until he has crossed to France and back again and searched England for the champagne "Felix
he provides Trent with information that proves crucial to the solving of the case.
"Trent's Own Case" was followed by a collection of short stories, "Trent Intervenes", published in 1938.
Bibliography.
- E.C. Bentley. "The Complete Clerihews". House of Status, 2008.