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Trent's Last Case is

a detective novel (1913) by E. C. Bentley;
a 1920
silent movie based on the book and directed by Richard Garrick
;
a 1929
silent movie adapted to the screen from the book by W. Scott Darling and Beulah Marie Dix and directed by Howard Hawks; and
a 1952
film based on the book and directed by Herbert Wilcox. The 1952 film starred Michael Wilding
as Trent and Orson Welles
as Manderson.

Trent's Last Case is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is due to the fact that it is at the same time the first major send-up of that very genre: Not only does Trent fall in love with one of the primary suspects — usually considered a no-no — he also, after painstakingly collecting all the evidence, draws all the wrong conclusions. Convinced that he has tracked down the murderer of a business tycoon who was shot in his mansion, he is told by the real perpetrator over dinner what mistakes in the logical deduction of the solution of the crime he has made. On hearing what really happened, Trent vows that he will never again attempt to dabble in crime detection.

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