The From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.

For our last eight encores, we'll be featuring episodes that were adapted from a book or short story.

For our purposes, we won't be including any film adaptations, and this will include episodes

of ongoing series as well as anthology programs. As usual with these encore presentations,

any offers or information included in the episode may not be valid unless currently displayed

on our Great Detactives website. Now, enjoy today's encore.

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio and our 2000th episode special.

From Calispell, Montana, this is your host, Adam Graham.

If you have a comment, send it to me, Box 13 at greatdetactives.net.

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friends on Facebook, facebook.com slash radio detectives. Well, 2,000 episodes is definitely a huge

milestone, and I wanted to bring you a very special one-hour story. And we're going to take a look

at one of the great classic mystery

novels adapted for audio. Trent's last case was released originally in 1913, and it was written by

E.C. Bentley. Ironically enough, it was the first book to feature amateur detective Philip Trent.

What we're going to bring you today is an hour-long NBC University theater presentation of Trent's last case.

And the original air date?

July the 30th of 1950.

Music 30th of 1950. ... ...of 1950. This is the NBC University Theater,

with another in our series of dramatizations based on outstanding works in Anglo-American literature.

Today, Dan O'Hurley-Hilley stars in one of the most unusual novels in the field of detective fiction.

E.C. Bentley's classic, Trent's Last Case.

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