Dr. Bentiron, late of Harvard 1879, kept a sanatorium near 56th Street in New York City and specialized in Sherlockian deductions. He could give an association test of a hundred words or so, then tell you what he had for breakfast. A creation of Ernest M. Poate, he lived at 500 Madison Avenue. Untidily dressed, enveloped in a haze of cigarette smoke and liberally sprinkled with ashes, he seemed, with his listless eyes and slouching figure, so shabby, so colourless. His hair was thin and tousled and streaked with grey; his beard was a nondescript mouse colour and badly needed trimming. His clothes were threadbare and wrinkled; a hole was burned in his coat. Apart from these negative first impressions, there was something compelling about him; moreover, his head was wonderfully modelled, the forehead very high and wide, the nose aquiline like that of an aristocrat, the eyes wide set, giving the appearance of belonging to a horse and surely providing an extraordinarily wide field of vision. Bentiron was featured in Behind Locked Doors (1923) and Dr Bentiron, Detective (1930). - The Crime Fighters.