Bentley, E. C. (1875-1956), was a British author best known for his detective stories and nonsense verse. His novel Trent’s Last Case (1913) marked the beginning of the realistic era of detective stories. Bentley also invented a form of comic verse in four lines that came to be called a clerihew, after his pseudonym, E. Clerihew.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born on July 10, 1875, in London. He died on March 30, 1956.
