# Inspector Murch — Trent’s Last Case character guide

> Inspector Murch in Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Murch, Mr. Murch, old Murch, Mrs. Inspector Murch

**First appearance:** 0004-iii-breakfast

## Snapshot

The Scotland Yard man sent to run the official Manderson inquiry, methodical and unhurried, forever measuring his slow certainties against Trent's quick guesses.

## Who they are

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, evidence weighed, nothing rushed for the newspapers. He matters because his plodding official version of the crime becomes the fixed line against which Trent's more imaginative reading of the household is tested.

## In the story

### [IV: Handcuffs in the Air](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/chapters/iv-handcuffs-in-the-air)

Murch shares his suspicions about Martin the servant and outlines a preliminary burglary theory, which Trent systematically dismantles.

### [VI: Mr. Bunner on the Case](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trent_s_last_case_se/chapters/vi-mr-bunner-on-the-case)

Present during the initial conversation about the pistol; Bunner dismisses him as a 'mutt' but Trent defends his shrewdness.

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