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That Yew Trees Shade
  

That Yew Trees Shade (Paperback)

de Cyril Hare (Author)
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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. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Legal, cool thinking, combined with gentle humour., Oct. 5 2002
Par John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: That Yew Tree's Shade (Paperback)
Those who like their crime fiction to be well written, from yesteryear, and narrated with a wry sense of humour, ought to sample the works of Cyril Hare being newly reprinted by the House of Stratus. Cyril Hare was the pseudonym for an English county court judge, Gordon Clark (1900-1957). He wrote 11 or 12 detective novels during the last 20 years of his life. This one was published in 1954.

Hare's regular sleuth, retired lawyer Francis Pettigrew, solves the murder mystery. Like the author, he knows all about "draughty town halls, where inaudible witnesses compete vainly with the roar of traffic outside, and stuffy police courts loud with the clamour of imprisoned stray dogs". The victim seems to be an unlikely candidate for murder. She is a relatively new arrival in the village. She rents a house. She is killed while delivering notices advertising a forthcoming bazaar. All very English. As Pettigrew, and members of the local police force discover, however, many people had both opportunity and a motive for killing her.

This is recommended for the fastidious reader, not for those seeking thrills, suspense, and excitement.

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