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Quizá por casualidad o por obra del destino, el artista y detective aficionado Philip Trent se ve envuelto en la muerte del filántropo James Randolph, pues tras recibir el encargo de pintar su retrato, ha sido la última persona, aparte del asesino, en verlo con vida.
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Quizá por casualidad o por obra del destino, el artista y detective aficionado Philip Trent se ve envuelto en la muerte del filántropo James Randolph, pues tras recibir el encargo de pintar su retrato, ha sido la última persona, aparte del asesino, en verlo con vida. Pero este es solo uno de los varios hilos que conectan a Trent con el suceso: su querido inspector Bligh está a cargo del caso y, además, otro viejo amigo suyo lo deja perplejo al confesarse culpable del crimen. La desaparición de una actriz y otros dos asesinatos añadirán aún más misterio a un laberinto de elaboradas intrigas que pondrán a prueba las capacidades deductivas del siempre inquieto y perspicaz protagonista. (fuente:editorial)
E. C. Bentley (full name Edmund Clerihew Bentley; 10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. One of the best known is this (1905):
Bentley was born in London and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford.[2] His father, John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871. Bentley worked as a journalist on several newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph.[citation needed] He also worked for the imperialist weekly called The Outlook during the editorship of James Louis Garvin.[3] His first published collection of poetry, titled Biography for Beginners (1905),[1] popularized the clerihew form; it was followed by two other collections, More Biography (1929) and Baseless Biography (1939).[2] His detective novel Trent's Last Case (1913)[4] 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. It was adapted as a film in 1920, 1929, and 1952. The success of the work inspired him, after 23 years, to write a sequel, Trent's Own Case (1936). There was also a book of Trent short stories, Trent Intervenes. Several of his books were reprinted in the early 2000s by House of Stratus.
From 1936 until 1949 Bentley was president of the Detection Club. He contributed to two crime stories for the club's radio serials broadcast in 1930 and 1931,[5] which were published in 1983 as The Scoop and Behind The Screen. In 1950 he contributed the introduction to a Constable & Co omnibus edition of Damon Runyon's "stories of the bandits of Broadway", which was republished by Penguin Books in 1990 as On Broadway.
He died in 1956 in London at the age of 80. His son Nicolas Bentley was a famous illustrator.
Phonographic recordings of his work "Recordings for the Blind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will.
G. K. Chesterton dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, The Man Who Was Thursday, to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a school friend.[6]
While he is best known for his crime fiction and clerihews, Bentley also wrote at least one science fiction short story. This is the recently re-discovered 'Flying Visit', published in the [London] Evening Standard on 31 March 1953.