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« on: November 09, 2023, 03:33:03 am »

Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark was born in Mickleham in 1900, and educated at St. Aubyn's, Rottingdean and Rugby. He read History at New College, Oxford.

This novel, entitled "With a Bare Bodkin", appeared in 1946 and has nineteen chapters:

1: Pettigrew Goes North

2: A Plot is Propounded

3: The Blenkinsop File

4: Chivalry in the Canteen

5: Encounter at “The Gamecock”

6: A Question of Insurance

7: Answer to a Letter

8: Noises in the Corridor

9: The Balloon Goes Up

10: The Whistling Kettle

11: The Missing Report

12: The Inquest and After

13: Talking About It

14: Police Inquiries

15: Miss Brown and Mr. Phillips

16: Edelman, Wood and Rickaby

17: Illumination at Eastbury

18: Explanation at Marsett Bay

19: Conclusion

Altogether Clark left us ten novels using the pseudonym Cyril Hare:

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)    The Magic Bottle, a children's book (1946)
7)    When the Wind Blows (1949)
8)    An English Murder (1951)
9)    That Yew Tree's Shade (1954)
10)  He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958)

As well as quite a number of short stories.

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