https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/trent-reaches-the-end/ ( )

Bentley wrote only three mystery books about Trent --Trent's Last Case, Trent's Own Case, ad Trent Intervenes, but he was admired by the great writers of the Golden Age such as Dorothy Sayers and deservedly so. His Trent's Last Case is regarded as a classic, but I am less fond of it, since it depends on a trick ending. On the other hand, the stories in Trent Intervenes really are little masterpieces. I agree with Ellery Queen that the short story is the perfect form for the detective story, and some of these are nearly perfect in their way. My favorites are The Genuine Tabard, which turns on a point of heraldry (and a point All Souls College, Oxford) and The Old-Fashioned Apache (Apache in the sense of French gangster, not Native American) which depends on a sort of French pig-Latin. I believe that The Clever Cockatoo may have influenced The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Whimsey, and The Ordinary Hairpins may have influenced one of Poirot's Labours of Hercules. ( )

An intriguing group of twelve mystery stories from the writer of the famed Trent's Last Case. Murder is not the only crime represented here, and in a couple of cases there is not even a crime at all, rather a puzzling series of events ingeniously unraveled by the bright and likeable artist, Philip Trent. I like this writer, and only wish he had written more. ( )

Not a bad collection of short stories, but I think it's a bad sign that I actually bought it and was part way through before I realized that I had read the whole collection before. As always with older British mysteries, the setting and the details of life in that place and time are what I enjoyed. ( )