Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brothman's name was not a new one in the long investigation of Soviet espionage. Elizabeth Bentley, ex-Soviet agent, told a grand jury in 1947 that Brothman, a Columbia University graduate, had given her information which she had passed on to the Soviet ring. Brothman told the jurors that he gave Miss Bentley only simple chemical formulas, and that for the purpose of getting legitimate contracts from Russia for his chemical engineering firm...
ELEPHANT'S WORK (277 pp.)-E C. Bentley-Knopf...
...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...
...wasn't, at least not for E. C. Bentley. Elephant's Work is written as smoothly as whipped cream, and it is not a jot more thrilling that a session with a charlotte russe...
...Author Bentley's trouble is that he has turned out neither a mystery nor a thriller, something Bentley seems to realize since he modestly decides that perhaps his book is only an "enigma." The real enigma is that the author of Trent's Last Case got stopped in his tracks so near the foot of John Buchan's steps...