Natural within London, Bentley worked as a journalist on many newspapers, including a Daily Telegraph. His foremost promulgated collection of poetry, coroneted Life for Beginners (1905), popularized a clerihew form; it was followed by ii more collections, around 1929 & 1939. His mystery 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. the profits of the operate inspired him, fallowing single Xxiii years, to write a sequel, Trent's Have Outbreak'' (1936). Many of his books stand recently been reprinted by Home of Stratus cloud [http://www.houseofstratus.com/].

Bentley died at a age of Lxxx within 1956. His boy Nicolas Bentley was a far-famed illustrator.