The Woman In Black is a detective novel written by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Its central character reappeared subsequently in the novel Trent's Own Case (1936) and the short-story collection Trent Intervenes (1938). The Woman in Black is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit with a place in detective fiction history because it is the first major sendup of that 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...
The Woman In Black is a detective novel written by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Its central character reappeared subsequently in the novel Trent's Own Cas...
