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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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