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•One of the CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION ‘TO100 CRIME NOVELS OF ALL TIME’ •‘Onof the three best detective stories ever written’AGATHA CHRISTIE. •‘Onof the seminal novels of the mystery genre’NEW YORK TIMES. When millionaire American financier, Sigsbee Manderson, is found dead in the garden of his English country house on the south-west coast, amateur detective Philip Trent is sent by a London newspaper to investigate. Why did Manderson rise in the middle of the night and venture outside? Why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson, ‘ThLady in Black’ soon has a disarming effect on the fallible and imaginative gentleman sleuth, who together with Scotland Yard Inspector Murth set about solving this puzzling case.ABOUT THE AUTHOREdmund Clerihew Bentley was born in London in 1875. He studied at Merton College, Oxford before embarking on a career in journalism working for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH for over twenty years. He wrote several non-fiction books, but is best known for his crime fiction masterpiece, TRENT’SLAST CASE, published to universal acclaim in 1913, and arguably the first modern detective novel. It was adapted for film three times (the 1952 film starring Orson Welles as Sigsbee and Margaret Lockwood as Mabel) and its success eventually persuaded Bentley to write a sequel, TRENT’SOWN CASE, 23 years later in 1936 and a book of Philip Trent short stories in 1938, TRENT