Title Matter

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, "Tragedy at Law", has twenty-four chapters:

1) No Trumpeters
2) Lunch at the Lodgings
3) A Dinner and its Sequel
4) Aftermath of an Accident
5) Lady Barbara
6) Civil Action
7) Chemical Reaction
8) On to Wimblingham
9) A Blow in the Dark
10) Tea and Theory
11) Whisky and Reminiscence
12) Someone has Talked
13) Cat and Mouse
14) Reflections and Reactions
15) Inside or Outside?
16) Gas
17) Reflections
18) Rex v. Ockenhurst
19) The End of the Circuit
20) Touch and Go
21) End of a Career
22) The Forces in Conference
23) Inquiries in the Temple
24) Explanations in the Temple

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.