The Woman in Black

Trent's Last Case published as The Woman in Black in the United States, in 1913, is a detective novel written by E. C. Bentley. Its central character is the artist and amateur detective Philip Trent. It is the first novel Philip Trent appears in, and is a whodunit with a place in detective fiction history because it is the first major send-up of that genre. Not only does Trent fall in love with one of the primary suspects usually considered off-limits he also, after painstakingly collecting...