E. C. Bentley

Standard Name: Bentley, E. C.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club members E. C. Bentley , Anthony Berkeley , Freeman Wills Crofts , and Clemence Dane . It was broadcast serially on the BBC .
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
.
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC published Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, the book which ended the long reign of the Belgian sleuth with a story about his death.
The title recalls E. C. Bentley 's Trent's Last Case...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Others contributors included Sayers herself, Anthony Berkeley , E. C. Bentley , and Ronald Knox . Each author's segment dovetailed into the next, but more often than not their idiosyncratic styles threatened the serial's coherence....
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF again invited comparison with a classic of the detective genre by titling her first collection of short fiction Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories.
The title suggests Agatha Christie 's Curtain: Poirot's...

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Texts

Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
.