Contract signed for the detective fiction classic 'Trent's Last Case', between Bentley and the publisher Thomas Nelson & Sons, dated 12 June 1912
6/27/1912. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 pages, folio, typed, the 3 sheets pinned together at upper left corner, with two corrections, signed by Bentley and the publisher at end. This "acknowledged masterpiece" (Dorothy Sayers) by "the father of the contemporary detective novel" (John Carter) could not find a publisher.....