# Trent’s Last Case — Character guide

> Key figures in Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley.

- [Philip Trent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/philip_trent.md): Trent moves between two worlds: the studio and the newspaper office, where a single letter about a railway murder made him a celebrity. His real gift is not deduction but a sympathetic, penetrating interest in people, wh
- [Sigsbee Manderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/sigsbee_manderson.md): Manderson built a colossal fortune by treating every rival as a predator and every room as a trap, and his own household ran on the same suspicion. His secretary Bunner insists the man was merely worn out with worry, not
- [Mabel Manderson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/mabel_manderson.md): Mabel Manderson asks only to be spared the newspapers, yet she is the one person whose evidence at the inquest opens the door on the dead man's domestic misery. She bears up with a fortitude that impresses her uncle Cupp
- [John Marlowe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/john_marlowe.md): Marlowe runs the dead man's affairs with a composure that impresses everyone, and he is the one who lays Trent's manuscript on the table and admits there is more truth to be told. He is bound to Mabel Manderson by someth
- [Nathaniel Burton Cupples](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/nathaniel_burton_cupples.md): Cupples is the quiet hinge of the affair: it is through his friendship with Trent and his loyalty to his niece that the detective is drawn into the Manderson household at all. He is a man of disquisitions and moral refle
- [Calvin Bunner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/calvin_bunner.md): Bunner has taken command of Manderson's tangled business affairs with a confidence that startles older men, and he speaks of his chief with a massive, unshakable innocence. He believes a serious breach between husband an
- [Inspector Murch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/murch.md): Murch arrives at White Gables as the professional answer to a sensational murder, the steady institutional counterweight to a case already exciting the whole country. His pride is craft: statements taken in order, eviden
- [Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/martin.md): Martin belongs to the small, ordered world Trent keeps around himself — part valet, part accomplice, entirely discreet. His value lies in the unglamorous work: watching, carrying messages, asking the questions a gentlema
- [Sir James Molloy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/sir_james_molloy.md): Sir James is the shrewd, genial power behind the Record, a man who knows art, knows news, and knows exactly how much a famous name is worth in print. He has never bullied Trent into journalism, only tempted him, case by 
- [Miss Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/characters/miss_morgan.md): A witness at the inquest, a young woman from the village.

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