Cyril Hare (1900–1958)
Teoksen An English Murder tekijä
About the Author
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Tekijän teokset
Tenant for Death | The Wind Blows Death | Death Walks the Woods | Death is No Sportsman | With a Bare Bodkin (1959) 4 kappaletta
The Death of Amy Robsart 2 kappaletta
With a Bare Bodkin | Sight of Death | The Burning Question — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Associated Works
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Avustaja — 24 kappaletta
Choice of Weapons — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Best Legal Stories — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1958/08 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Einige Morde : Mordgeschichten — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Best Crime Stories 2 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon
- Syntymäaika
- 1900-09-04
- Kuolinaika
- 1958-08-25
- Hautapaikka
- St Michael Churchyard Mickleham, Mole Valley District, Surrey, England
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Groot-Brittannië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Mickleham, Surrey, England
- Kuolinpaikka
- Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Battersea, London, England, UK
Mickleham, Surrey, England, UK - Koulutus
- Oxford University (New College)
Rugby School, Rugby, England, UK
St Aubyn's, Rottingdean - Ammatit
- judge
barrister
crime novelist
short story writer - Organisaatiot
- Detection Club
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Cyril Hare's pen name was reportedly derived from a mixture of Hare Court, where he worked as a lawyer, and Cyril Mansions in Battersea, where he lived. As a young man and during the early days of World War II, Hare served as a touring judge's marshal, an experience he used in his novels. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He served a short time at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and the wartime civil service. In 1950 he was appointed county court judge in Surrey. Hare suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 57.
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I never try to figure out the solutions to murder mysteries anyhow, and I wouldn't have been able to in this. For me, it's the quality of the journey with Cyril Hare. And he does, in the very end, tell you why these murders are peculiarly English.
Very english. :) A nice classic british locked-room mystery (of the isolated group variety, not a literal locked room).
Maybe even 4.5*
I found Hare’s setting in this one very amusing (a satire of WW2 British bureaucracy, it’s set in the Bureau of Pin Control and has a subplot about black market trading in pins!) and the mystery was very good. I thought that I had figured it out but not so!
I found Hare’s setting in this one very amusing (a satire of WW2 British bureaucracy, it’s set in the Bureau of Pin Control and has a subplot about black market trading in pins!) and the mystery was very good. I thought that I had figured it out but not so!
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Like most crime fiction novels, the second half is less exciting than the setup, although the plot holds together quite well. I would like to adapt this for the screen, I think. It could make an enjoyable - and timely - TV film.… (lisätietoja)