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Cyril Hare

    4 settembre 1900 – 25 agosto 1958

    L'autore si è affermato come un celebrato scrittore di gialli, noto per la sua acuta osservazione della vita e della natura umana. Le sue opere sono lodate per la loro trama intelligente, l'illuminante commento sulle sfumature sociali e la prosa elegante. Ha creato personaggi memorabili che danno vita a narrazioni avvincenti piene di colpi di scena. Il suo background legale conferisce autenticità e profondità alle sue storie, consolidando il suo status di maestro del genere.

    When the Wind Blows
    That Yew Tree's Shade
    Death Is No Sportsman
    Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
    With a Bare Bodkin
    Tenant for Death
    • 2025

      Der Tote im Wohnzimmer

      Inspector Malletts erster Fall. Ein Klassiker aus dem goldenen Zeitalter der Detektivliteratur

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      In einem ruhigen Wohnviertel Londons wird die Idylle durch den Mord an dem berüchtigten Börsenspekulanten Lionel Ballantine erschüttert. Zwei junge Makler entdecken die Leiche in einem Mietshaus, was Fragen aufwirft: Was führte Ballantine dorthin und wer ist der geheimnisvolle Mieter? Inspector Mallett, ein genialer Ermittler, wird mit diesem komplexen Fall betraut, der nicht nur die Bewohner von Daylesford Gardens betrifft, sondern auch tiefere Abgründe der Londoner Gesellschaft aufdeckt.

      Der Tote im Wohnzimmer
    • 2016

      Vier wohlhabende englische Gentlemen hatten sich vor vielen Jahren an einem Flüsschen ein besonders interessantes Angelrevier gepachtet. Sie teilten es in vier Teile auf, an denen sie dann abwechselnd fischten. Inzwischen hängen bereits ihre Nachkömmlinge die Angeln ins Wasser – so auch Sir Peter Packer, der zwar verheiratet ist, sich aber immer noch für einen unwiderstehlichen Casanova hält. Der zukünftige Vater – er hatte sich mit einem Mädchen aus der nahegelegenen Ortschaft eingelassen – wird von Dr. Latymer, dem Dorfarzt, ermordet aufgefunden. Offensichtlich wurde er mit seiner eigenen Waffe erschossen. Das ist alles, was die örtliche Polizei herausfindet. Aber auch Inspektor Mallett von Scotland Yard steht vor einem Rätsel…

      Das Geheimnis des Anglers
    • 2009

      Tragedy at Law

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the Southern England circuit.

      Tragedy at Law
    • 2009

      When the Wind Blows

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Famous solo violinist Lucy Carless is making a guest appearance with the provincial Markshire Orchestra, only to be found strangled with a silk stocking part-way through the concert.

      When the Wind Blows
    • 2008

      Untimely Death

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      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 the incident occurred - only to find another dead body.

      Untimely Death
    • 2008

      With a Bare Bodkin

      • 204pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      The Blitz has forced the evacuation of various government offices from London and Pettigrew accompanies his ministry to the distant seaside resort of Marsett Bay. In this strange atmosphere, Pettigrew begins to fall in love with his secretary, who is also being courted by a widowed man much older than her.

      With a Bare Bodkin
    • 2008

      Suicide Excepted

      • 234pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      An Inspector Mallett mystery, originally published in 1939, by one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare. Inspector Mallett's stay at the country house hotel of Pendlebury Old Hall has been a disappointment.

      Suicide Excepted
    • 2008

      That Yew Tree's Shade

      • 204pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Gordon Clark was a county judge at the time of the novel's compositionWhen Francis Pettigrew, former barrister and sometime amateur detective, is plucked out of peaceful retirement in the Home Counties to deputise for the County Court judge, the proceedings offer him some unexpected insights into the lives of his new neighbours.

      That Yew Tree's Shade
    • 2008

      These thirty stories, selected and introduced by fellow crime writer and lawyer Michael Gilbert, are a terrific introduction to Cyril Hare's inventive and clever Golden Age detective fiction, which often turns on an ingenious use of the law.

      Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
    • 2008

      Tenant for Death

      • 206pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      Tenant for Death (1937) was the debut crime novel by 'Cyril Hare', nom de plume of Alfred Gordon Clark and one of the best-loved names in English 'Golden Age' crime writing.

      Tenant for Death