Sayers, Dorothy L., E. C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Clemence Dane. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener.
E. C. Bentley
Standard Name: Bentley, E. C.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | 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
. |
| 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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