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Cyril Hare
1950s Penguin photograph of Hare
1950s Penguin photograph of Hare
BornAlfred Alexander Gordon Clark
(1900-09-04)4 September 1900
Mickleham, Surrey, England
Died25 August 1958(1958-08-25) (aged 57)
Westhumble, Surrey, England
OccupationCounty court judge
and crime writer
NationalityBritish
EducationNew College, Oxford
Period1937–1958
GenreCrime Fiction
Literary movementGolden Age of Detective Fiction
Notable worksSuicide Excepted (1939)
Tragedy at Law (1942)
An English Murder (1951)
Spouse
Mary Barbara Lawrence
(m. 1933)
Children3, including Alexandra Wedgwood
RelativesMartin Wedgwood (son-in-law)
Roderick Snell (son-in-law)
Arthur Snell (grandson)

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Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English barrister, judge[1][2] and crime writer under the pseudonym Cyril Hare.[2][3]

  1. ^ ‘GORDON CLARK, His Honour Judge Alfred Alexander’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 26 May 2013
  2. ^ a b His Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, 26 August 1958; pg. 10; Issue 54239; col E
  3. ^ "Detection and the Law: An Appreciation of Cyril Hare". Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2009.

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husband, the French general, Alexandre D'Arblay. The detective story writer Cyril Hare was born in Mickleham in 1900 and lived from 1951 until his death in 1958...

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