Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black), credited to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Trent's Last Case, by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) 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 because 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. (Summary from Wikipedia) Read by Librivox volunteers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)
• Author credits: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 7:04:52

Catalogue topics

• murder mystery
• mystery
• sleuth
• philip trent
• crime fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Prologue (Bad News) — 16:47
2. 01 - Knocking the Town Endways — 13:35
3. 02 - Breakfast — 28:44
4. 03 - Handcuffs in the Air — 52:48
5. 04 - Poking About — 29:29
6. 05 - Mr. Bunner on the Case — 16:56
7. 06 - The Lady in Black — 21:36
8. 07 - The Inquest — 11:32
9. 08 - A Hot Scent — 12:41
10. 09 - Wife of Dives — 19:55
11. 10 - Hitherto Unpublished — 36:21
12. 11 - Evil Days — 19:18
13. 12 - Eruption — 42:14
14. 13 - Writing a Letter — 8:38
15. 14 - Double Cunning — 1:06:02
16. 15 - The Last Straw — 28:26

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