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Cyril Hare


(Alfred Alexander Clark)
UK flag (1900 - 1958)

Cyril Hare was the pseudonym of Judge Gordon Clark. Born at Mickleham near Dorking in 1900, he was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. At the bar his practice was largely in the criminal courts. During the Second World War he was on the staff of the Director of Public Prosecutions; but later, as a County Court judge, his work concerned civil disputes only - and his sole connection with crime was through his fiction. He turned to writing detective stories at the age of thirty-six and some of his first short stories were published in Punch. Hare went on to write a series of detective novels. He died in 1958.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Inspector Mallett
   1. Tenant for Death (1937)
   2. Death is No Sportsman (1938)
   3. Suicide Excepted (1939)
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Francis Pettigrew
   1. Tragedy at Law (1942)
   2. With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
   3. The Wind Blows Death (1949)
     aka When the Wind Blows
   4. Death Walks the Woods (1954)
     aka That Yew Tree's Shade
   5. Untimely Death (1958)
     aka He Should Have Died Hereafter
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Novels
   An English Murder (1951)
     aka The Christmas Murder
   The Magic Bottle (2009)
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Collections
   Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (1959)
     aka Death Among Friends
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Anthologies containing stories by Cyril Hare
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Bodies from the Library 6 (2023)
(Bodies from the Library, book 6)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Bodies from the Library 5 (2022)
(Bodies from the Library, book 5)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Murder by the Seaside (2022)
Classic Crime Stories for Summer
edited by
Cecily Gayford

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