NMLP P-007259 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Trent's Last Case

E. C. Bentley · Thomas Nelson & Sons (London) · 1913

The UK Nelson 1913 edition and the US Century 1913 edition (titled The Woman in Black) appeared at essentially the same time in early 1913, not with a clear interval. The Nelson edition is conventionally treated as the first edition proper, carrying the title by which the book is known, but the two are best described as near-simultaneous rather than one clearly preceding the other.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-007259 for "Trent's Last Case" by E. C. Bentley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-007259, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).