Trent's Last Case: "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born on July 10th in London and educated at St Paul’s and Merton College, Oxford. Bentley worked as a journalist on several newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph. His first published collection of poetry in 1905, “Biography for Beginners,” popularized the clerihew form (this was an irregular type of humourous verse, normally on biographical subjects) it was followed by two other collections, More Biography (1929) and Baseless Biography (1939). His detective n...