biography
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Bentley, E(dmund) C(lerihew)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1956)
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| biography:
| Journalist and novelist, born in Shepherd's Bush, London, UK. He is chiefly remembered as the author of Trent's Last Case (1913), which is regarded as a milestone in the development of the detective novel. A close friend of G K Chesterton, he originated and gave his name to the type of humorous verse-form known as the clerihew, a four-line verse consisting of two couplets which are often witty and epigrammatic. |
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