Barrister and judge Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, aka mystery author and Detection Club member
Cyril Hare, was born today in Surrey in 1900. His best-known sleuth is offbeat lawyer Francis Pettigrew; FaberFinds has reissued many of the Pettigrew novels, including
Tragedy at Law,
Untimely Death, and
When the Wind Blows. His other detective is Inspector Mallett (
Tenant for Death,
Death Is No Sportsman,
Suicide Excepted). Clark died in 1958. His colleague
Michael Gilbert edited
Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare in 1961.
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