E. C. Bentley

E. C. Bentley (1875-1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century. His detective novel, Trent’s Last Case (1913), 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.