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Cyril Hare
Full Series List in Order
An Inspector Mallett Mystery
1 - Tenant for Death (1937)2 - Death Is No Sportsman (1938)
3 - Suicide Excepted (1939)
4 - Tragedy at Law (1942)
5 - With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
6 - When the Wind Blows // The Wind Blows Death (1949)
7 - Death Walks the Woods (1954)
8 - Untimely Death // He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958)
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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Tenant for Death
- 1937
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When successful London businessman Lionel Ballantine is found strangled in the smoking room of a house in the sedate Daylesford Gardens district, Scotland Yard's Inspector Mallett is called in to investigate...
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Death Is No Sportsman
- 1938
- / Law Enforcement
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Every weekend, four men devoted to fly-fishing gather at a small resort hotel in rural England to enjoy their favorite sport. Though not friends, the men have learned to get along in order to share fishing rights to an especially desirable section of...
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Suicide Excepted
- 1939
- / Law Enforcement
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Inspector Mallett of the C.I.D. is on holiday at the charming country hotel of Pendlebury Old Hall when the suspicious death of a fellow guest interrupts his rural reverie and inadvertently embroils him in family passions and murder....
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Tragedy at Law
- 1942
- / Law Enforcement
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Judge William Barber begins his usually uneventful tour of England's Southern Circuit, but when he receives a threatening note and becomes the victim of several strange mishaps, attorney Francis Pettigrew starts investigating...
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With a Bare Bodkin
- 1946
- / Law Enforcement
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England is in the grip of the Second World War and the Blitz has forced the evacuation of various government offices from London. Francis Pettigrew, an unsuccessful barrister and amateur detective, accompanies his ministry to the distant seaside reso...
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When the Wind Blows // The Wind Blows Death
- 1949
- / Law Enforcement
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Who killed solo violinist Luc Carless during a concert by the Markshire Orchestra? Her first husband? Her second? Womanizer Bill Ventry? The clarinetist and fellow Pole, Zbartorowski, with whom she’d had a violent argument?...
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An English Murder
- 1951
- / Suspense
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A classic detective story from one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for ...
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Name of Smith
- 1952
- / Mystery
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'Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool. A clever fool -- perhaps -- but a fool just the same' RAYMOND CHANDLER Ever since its creation in 1953, the Crime Writers' Association has celebrated and champione...
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Death Walks the Woods
- 1954
- / Law Enforcement
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The picturesque village of Yew Hill, Markshire becomes an idyllic retreat for Francis Pettigrew and his wife until Francis is suddenly summoned to sit in as the County Court Judge and an elderly neighbor is brutally murdered....
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Untimely Death // He Should Have Died Hereafter
- 1958
- / Law Enforcement
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Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife - an area in which as a young boy he was traumatised by coming across a dead body on the moor. In an attempt to exorcise this trauma, Pettigrew walks across the moor to the place where t...
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Weight and See
- 1959
- / Mystery
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Thirteen timeless classics of mystery -- all featuring unforgettable dog heroes -- are together for the very first time in Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often...
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Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
- Jan-2001
- / Mystery
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Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Story of Hermione, in which the eponymous character grows rich from the all too convenient deaths of several relatives, has been called one ...
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Sister Bessie or Your Old Leech
- 2018
- / Cozy Mystery
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A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. This collec...