- Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Philip Trent (Fictitious character)
Trent investigates the death of an industrialist. He solves the case three times, each time getting closer to the truth.
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Cool, plot-driven, spare and intimate.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- E. C. Bentley
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 182
- Publisher
- Large Print Book Company, The, Publishers of the Valley, Garland Pub.
- Editions
- 356
- Language
- English, German, French, gle
- ISBN
- 9798706295783
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First sentence
“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”
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