When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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Birth: | 10th July, 1875 |
Death: | 30th March, 1956 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Humorist, Novelist |
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born in London, England. He was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century. His detective novel, Trent's Last Case, was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.
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