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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, "An English Murder", has eighteen chapters:
1. The Butler and the Professor 2. The Guests 3. Father and Son 4. Tea for Six 5. Robert in the Toils 6. Company in the Pantry 7. Christmas Dinner 8. The Last Toast 9. Cyanide 10. Dr. Bottwink at Breakfast 11. John Wilkes and William Pitt 12. The Bedroom and the Library 13. A New Lord Warbeck 14. Effects of a Thaw 15. Dr. Bottwink in Error 16. A Pot of Tea 17. "Words, words. . . ." 18. An English Murder
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.
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