- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Great britain, fiction
Philip Trent returns! And this time the erudite investigator and confidant of Scotland Yard finds himself in a most novel situation — under suspicion for murder. Trent is amused by the clumsy attempt to frame him but events take a shocking turn when his closest friend suddenly confesses....
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- E. C. Bentley, H. Warner Allen
- First published
- January 2002
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group (T), Carroll & Graf, Penguin Books, Inc.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780008333928
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