Cyril Hare, the pen name of judge Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, wrote British detective fiction drawing on law, politics and the institutions he knew professionally. Tragedy at Law follows barrister Francis Pettigrew and Inspector Mallett around a travelling High Court circuit, using legal routine and professional rivalries as the setting for murder. An English Murder gathers an uneasy Christmas house party around a dying aristocrat, where politics, inheritance and social change matter as much as the closed-circle puzzle. With a Bare Bodkin and other novels return to Pettigrew's dry viewpoint and institutional settings. Hare's mysteries are witty, restrained and carefully plotted, with less flamboyance than many Golden Age contemporaries. His work fits classic British crime, legal mysteries and country-house detective fiction, particularly for readers of Edmund Crispin and Michael Gilbert. Read more Less
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