That Yew Tree’s Shade

Cyril Hare

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571247868
Date Published
11.12.2008
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Summary

That Yew Tree’s Shade (1954) was the seventh 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. Gordon Clark was a county judge at the time of the novel’s composition

When 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. And after the body of a penniless widow known for her good works is found on Yew Hill, a famous local beauty spot, Pettigrew is drawn into the case as a witness.

‘Cyril Hare’s style is easy and fluent, and his books are eminently readable … A great novelist.’ Spectator

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Cyril Hare was the pseudonym for the distinguished lawyer Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark. He was born in Surrey, in 1900, and was educated at Rugby and Oxford. A member of the Inner Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1924 and joined the chambers of Roland Oliver, who handled many of the great crime cases of the 1920s. He…

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