Trent Intervenes by Bentley, E. C - 1986

London: J M Dent & Sons. Good. 1986. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Some reading and cover creases, light edge wear, sticker tear to front cover, small ink mark to front endpaper, somewhat thumbed. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 272 pages; Phillip Trent - Artist, journalist and urbane man about town - is one of the most engaging amateur sleuths in crime fiction. Well dressed, well read and well connected, he is the person to summon to your Mayfair flat, country house of Italian villa if you are faced with a little problem of fraud, theft or even murder. Here he intervenes in the tangled affairs of a host of varied characters, from an opera singer to a couple of gullible American tourists, solving each problem with formidable ingenuity and flair. .