G. K. Chesterton

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

The Art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps. With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews," offer satirical views of historical figures, from Edward the Confessor and Odo of Bayeux to Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others. The witty verses are accompanied by the book's outstanding feature: whimsical full-page illustrations by G. K. Chesterton.

Biography for Beginners

O Último caso de Trent

Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett

John Buchan

Cyril Hare

Josephine Tey

Wilkie Collins

Dorothy L. Sayers

Erskine Childers

Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler. Farewell, My Lovely Dorothy L. Sayers. Gaudy Night Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon John Buchan. The Thirty-nine Steps Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Trent's Last Case Cyril Hare. Tragedy At Law Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone Erskine Childers. The Riddle of the Sands

The Daughter of Time, The Big Sleep, Gaudy Night, The Maltese Falcon, The Thirty Nine Steps, Trent's Last Case, Tragedy at Law and others

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Vol.1. Illustrated

The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley

Herbert Warner Allen

The murder of a sadistic philanthropist sparks off an elaborate investigation led by Philip Trent, who had been painting the portrait of the victim. Two subsequent murders and the disappearance of an actress provide subsidiary mysteries in this inventive tale, which sees Trent in an elaborate maze created by ingenious criminal schemes.

Trent's Own Case

The first of a series of detective novels featuring "gentleman sleuth Philip Trent," later published under the title "Trent's Last Case."

The Woman in Black

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled up-without making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honor. But when the news of his end came, it seemed to those living in the great vortices of business as if the earth, too, shuddered under a blow. In all the lurid commercial history of his country there had been no figure that had so imposed itself upon the mind of the trading world. He had a niche apart in its temples.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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