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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, "That Yew Tree's Shade", has twenty-one chapters:

1)     A Room with a View
2)     Mendelism in the County Court
3)     Mrs. Pink at Home
4)     The Prodigal Mother
5)     Humphrey Rose
6)     The Acquaintances of Mr. Rose
7)     Postponement of a Bazaar
8)     Litter in the Glade
9)     First Enquiries
10)   Trimble v. Todman
11)   Percy, Prufrock and Paine
12)   Trimble at the Alps
13)   Fresh Light on Mrs. Pink
14)   Mr. Wendon's Story
15)   Paine's Fireworks
16)   A Walk after Church
17)   Trimble v. Pettigrew
18)   Trimble v. Rose (Wendon intervening)
19)   The Hospital and the Hotel
20)   Two Shocks for Pettigrew
21)   At the Druids Hotel


Clark left us altogether 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)

Also quite a number of short stories.