Trent's Last Case (1952)

Plotzle Expert · Puzzle #13 · March 7, 2026 · Mystery

Six plot descriptions for Trent's Last Case (1952). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A defense attorney in Baltimore discovers that his final murder trial before retirement involves a client who matches the description of a man he helped escape justice decades earlier.
2. An isolated woman receives anonymous letters claiming her husband's suicide was actually murder but following the clues leads her to question whether she remembers their last argument accurately or completely.
3. A forensic photographer documents crime scenes with detached precision until someone begins leaving photographs of his estranged daughter at each new location he visits and he cannot trace their origin.
4. A reporter investigates a wealthy businessman's death, suspects murder rather than suicide as police claim, and becomes interested in the deceased man's widow and his private secretary during the investigation.
5. Trent examines cold cases in a rural archive and finds patterns suggesting that several solved murders were actually committed by different perpetrators but his supervisor dismisses the findings as coincidental.
6. When a methodical detective investigates the drowning of a young prosecutor, he realizes the victim had been collecting evidence about corruption within his own precinct and left behind encrypted files.