Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (1900-09-04)4 September 1900 Mickleham, Surrey, England
Died
25 August 1958(1958-08-25) (aged 57) Westhumble, Surrey, England
Occupation
County court judge and crime writer
Nationality
British
Education
New College, Oxford
Period
1937–1958
Genre
Crime Fiction
Literary movement
Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Notable works
Suicide Excepted (1939) Tragedy at Law (1942) An English Murder (1951)
Spouse
Mary Barbara Lawrence
(m. 1933)
Children
3, including Alexandra Wedgwood
Relatives
Martin Wedgwood (son-in-law) Roderick Snell (son-in-law) Arthur Snell (grandson)
Literature portal
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]
^‘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
^ abHis Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, 26 August 1958; pg. 10; Issue 54239; col E
^"Detection and the Law: An Appreciation of Cyril Hare". Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
was an English barrister, judge and crime writer under the pseudonym CyrilHare. Gordon Clark was born in Mickleham, Surrey, the third son of Henry Herbert...
An English Murder is a crime novel by CyrilHare. Published in 1951, it combines traits of classical Golden Age murder mystery – a group of guests in a...
Peter Redgrove; BBC R4 7/3/1984. 1984: Tragedy at Law as the Judge; by CyrilHare; BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre 7/4/1984. 1985–1989: After Henry as...
Clark (1900–1958) published a number of detective novels under the alias CyrilHare, in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English...
directed by Samson Samsonov, based on the 1951 novel An English Murder by CyrilHare. The film begins as relatives and friends come to Lord Warbeck's family...
to prominence; nonetheless, writers such as Rex Stout, Lucille Kallen, CyrilHare, Jonathan Gash, and Simon Brett have employed the device in their fiction...
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novel by Marguerite Steen When the Wind Blows, a 1949 detective novel by CyrilHare When the Wind Blows, a 1956 novel by Noel Gerson When the Wind Blows,...
player Francis Pettigrew, a barrister-cum-sleuth invented by crime writer CyrilHare Peter Pettigrew (character), a character in Harry Potter Oliver Pettigrew...
Clark (1900–1958), English judge and crime writer under the pseudonym CyrilHare Arthur Clark (Massachusetts politician), member of the Great and General...
Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution (short story and play) CyrilHare: Tragedy at Law (novel) Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor...
George Eliot into the plot of Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), and also by CyrilHare in He Should Have Died Hereafter (1957). In the latter work (also published...
Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish stage and screen actor with a career that spanned more than 70 years. During his lifetime...
en forêt (A Balcony in the Forest) Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana CyrilHare – He Should Have Died Hereafter Marlen Haushofer – We Murder Stella (Wir...
(disambiguation) See Mortal coil (disambiguation) With a Bare Bodkin by CyrilHare The Undiscovered Country, 1991 Star Trek film No Traveller Returns by...
Problems for Don Isidro Parodi 2 Edward D. Hoch (Dr. Sam Hawthorne series) 3 CyrilHare Suicide Excepted 4 Thomas H. Cook Instruments of Night 5 Leo Bruce Case...
Greene – The End of the Affair Henri René Guieu – Le Pionnier de l'atome CyrilHare – An English Murder John Hawkes – The Beetle Leg Robert A. Heinlein –...
husband, the French general, Alexandre D'Arblay. The detective story writer CyrilHare was born in Mickleham in 1900 and lived from 1951 until his death in 1958...
crime writer Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, who wrote under the pseudonym CyrilHare, and Mary Barbara Lawrence (the daughter of Sir William Lawrence, 3rd...
peer Noah Cato, rugby player Matthew Fleming, England and Kent cricketer CyrilHare, judge and crimewriter John Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lindsay...
on Tuesdays at 9.30pm) are as follows: The Murder at Warbeck Hall by CyrilHare, broadcast on 27 January 1948 A Nice Cup of Tea by Anthony Gilbert, broadcast...
with the blind for the remainder of her life. The detective novelist CyrilHare and General Sir George Giffard were among her nephews. Lucy Norton, the...