Word: clerihew
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...judgment of his peers can. be trusted, Englishman Edmund Clerihew* Bentley wrote one of the best detective stories of the 20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty...
...middle name which has also come to stand for a whole species of short, down-to-earth rhymes originated by Bentley himself. Sample Bentley clerihew...
...four-line rhyme that has had a continuing vogue in England, named for its inventor, mystery writer E. C. (for Clerihew) Bentley (Trent's Last Case). Sample Clerihew by Miller...
...Alexander Clerihew Northrop...
Richard Talliesyn Davis, Eugene Emerson, John Woolsey Ewell, Samuel Trafford Hicks, Jr., and Alexander Clerihew Northrop...