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Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English judge[1][2] and crime writer under the pseudonym Cyril Hare.[2][3]

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Life and work[edit]

Gordon Clark was born in Mickleham, Surrey, the third son of Henry Herbert Gordon Clark of Mickleham, Surrey Hall, a merchant in the wine and spirit trade, Matthew Clark & Sons being the family firm. The socialist politician Susan Lawrence was his aunt. He was educated at St Aubyn's, Rottingdean and Rugby. He read History at New College, Oxford (where he heard William Archibald Spooner say in a sermon that 'now we see through a dark glassly' [sic]) and graduated with a First. He then studied law and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1924.

Gordon Clark's pseudonym was a mixture of Hare Court, where he worked in the chambers of Roland Oliver, and Cyril Mansions, Battersea, where he lived after marrying Mary Barbara Lawrence (daughter of Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet) in 1933. They had one son, Charles Philip Gordon Clark (clergyman, later dry stone waller), and two daughters, Alexandra Mary Gordon Clark (Lady Wedgwood FSA, architectural historian, see Wedgwood baronets) and Cecilia Mary Gordon Clark (Cecilia Snell, musician, who married Roderick Snell).

As a young man and during the early days of the Second World War, Gordon Clark toured as a judge's marshal, an experience he used in Tragedy at Law. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. At the beginning of the war he served a short time at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and the wartime civil service with many temporary members appears in With a Bare Bodkin. In 1950 he was appointed county court judge in Surrey. His best-known novel is Tragedy at Law, in which he drew on his legal expertise and in which he introduced Francis Pettigrew, a not very successful barrister who in this and four other novels just happens to elucidate aspects of the crime. His professional detective (they appeared together in three novels, and only one has neither of them present) was a large and realistic police officer, Inspector Mallett, with a vast appetite.

Tragedy at Law has never been out of print, and Marcel Berlins described it in 1999 as 'still among the best whodunnits set in the legal world.'[4]P. D. James went further and wrote that it 'is generally acknowledged to be the best detective story set in that fascinating world.'[5] It appeared at no. 85 in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Of his other full-length novels, Suicide Excepted shows a man committing an almost perfect murder, only to find that a quirk of the insurance laws deprives him of his hoped for reward.

Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the London Evening Standard. Among them, The Story of Hermione, in which the eponymous character grows rich from the all too convenient deaths of several relatives, has been called one of the most chilling short stories ever written. Sister Bessie describes vividly the agonies of a blackmail victim and the desperate crimes he commits in the hope of freeing himself from his tormentor. Miss Burnside's Dilemma describes the predicament of a person who uncovers a piece of unscrupulous, but entirely legal chicanery by someone she had previously admired. A Life for a Life explores the possibility of atonement for one's earthly sins after death.

He was a member of the Detection Club.

Having suffered from tuberculosis shortly after the Second World War Gordon Clark was never again in full health and died at his home near Box Hill, Surrey at age 57.

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • Tenant for Death (1937), adapted from the stage play Murder In Daylesford Gardens
  • Death Is No Sportsman (1938)
  • Suicide Excepted (1939)
  • Tragedy at Law (1942)
  • With a Bare Bodkin (1946)
  • The Magic Bottle, a children's book (1946)
  • When the Wind Blows (US title The Wind Blows Death, 1949)
  • An English Murder (1951), adapted from the radio play Murder at Warbeck Hall
  • That Yew Tree's Shade (US title Death Walks the Woods, 1954)
  • He Should Have Died Hereafter (US title and also title of some UK reprints Untimely Death, 1958)

Short Story Collections[edit]

  • Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (US title Death among Friends, 1959, edited by Michael Gilbert)

Short Stories[edit]

  • Miss Burnside's Dilemma. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Murderers' Luck. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Tragedy of Young Macintyre. Collected in 'Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Where There's a Will. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Death of a Blackmailer. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • As the Inspector Said .... Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • A Life for a Life. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • A Very Useful Relationship. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Monday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Tuesday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Wednesday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Thursday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Friday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Saturday's Child. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Death of Amy Robsart. The Sketch, Christmas Number 1937. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Weight and See. Illustrated London News, Christmas Number 1938. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (Mallett)
  • TITLE UNKNOWN. The Sketch, Christmas Number 1938
  • The Return Visit. The Gloucester Journal, 6 April 1940 (Mallett)
  • It Takes Two .... Evening Standard, 29 November 1949. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Sister Bessie. Evening Standard, 23 December 1949. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare as Sister Bessie or Your Old Leech. Reprinted as Sister Bessie or The Present in the Post. Queensland Times, 28 December 1950
  • The Euthanasia of Hilary's Aunt (Mallett). Evening Standard, 4 December 1950
  • Spare the Rod and Spoil the Crime.Evening Standard, 24 January 1951
  • Death among Friends. To be confirmed, 25 July 1951, as Death among Strangers. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Story of Hermione. To be confirmed, 9 November 1951. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Will. Evening Standard, 6 December 1951
  • Accident. Evening Standard, 21 June 1952. Reprinted: The Times of India, 20 April 1958
  • The Markhampton Miracle. Evening Standard, 17 October 1952. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare. Reprinted as Solving the Christmas Miracle of Markhampton. West Sussex County Times, 17 December 1954; and as Solving the Markhampton Mystery. Hampshire Telegraph, 9 December 1955
  • The Old Flame. Reprinted: The Times of India, 2 November 1952. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • Line out of Order. Reprinted: The Times of India, 22 February 1953. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare. Published as Automatic Out of Order. Melbourne Herald, 17 September 1953
  • Dropper's Delight. Evening Standard, 13 April 1954. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • This Side up with Care. Evening Standard, 8 July 1954
  • I Never Forget a Face. Reprinted: Liverpool Echo, 7 August 1954. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Rivals. Evening Standard, 14 July 1955. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare
  • The Man from Pannonia. Evening Standard, 30 September 1955
  • Punctuality Grant. Evening Standard, 11 October 1955. Reprinted (Dublin) Evening Herald, 31 March 1960, as The Phone Call at 4am
  • The Magnifying Glass. Evening Standard, 10 March 1956
  • Name of Smith. Reprinted: The Times of India, 11 March 1956. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (Pettigrew)
  • The Ruling Passion. Evening Standard, 25 July 1956. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (Pettigrew)
  • The Man in the Silk Pyjamas. Evening Standard, 15 August 1956. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare as The Heel
  • A Surprise for Christmas. Reprinted: The Times for India, 6 December 1956, as Surprise for Christmas. Collected in Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare

Radio Plays[edit]

  • Murder at Warbeck Hall BBC Light Programme, 27 January 1948 (Episode 2 in a series of plays by members of The Detection Club)

Stage Plays[edit]

  • Murder In Daylesford Gardens (1929). Revised as The Noose Is Cut (1935)
  • The House of Warbeck (1955). Adapted from An English Murder

Reviews[edit]

  • Forensic Farce (Review of Friends at Court by Henry Cecil). Daily Telegraph, 16 March 1956

References[edit]

  1. ^‘GORDON CLARK, His Honour Judge Alfred Alexander’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 26 May 2013
  2. ^ abHis Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, Aug 26, 1958; pg. 10; Issue 54239; col E
  3. ^'Detection and the Law: An Appreciation of Cyril Hare'.
  4. ^The Guardian, Nov. 1, 1999
  5. ^article The Judge's Progress, c. 2005

External links[edit]

  • Works by Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark at Faded Page (Canada)
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A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder.
Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame.
Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amon...more
Published November 12th 2015 by Vintage Digital (first published 1949)
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Dec 03, 2017Julie rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2017, e-book, golden-age-detection, vintage, christmas-theme, classic-mystery
Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan is a 2015 Vintage Digital publication. (Originally published in 1949)
A ‘Dickensian’ Christmas tradition gone horribly awry.
This story is billed as a classic Christmas mystery, but in all honesty, I’d never heard of Francis Duncan or this book until about a month ago. I was intrigued, especially since I have no problem finding holiday romances, but struggle to find a Christmas mystery that isn’t a part of a very long running series. As it turns out, this is...more
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What a fun classic murder mystery to read around this time. I felt quite cozy and easy to read. The amount of characters felt overwhelming in the beginning, but I managed to distinguish and seperate them well. Overall a nice relaxing read for the December month.
Dec 13, 2017BrokenTune rated it it was ok
NO one could have foretold how it was going to end.
Not even the murderer.

Well, that's not quite true... I had the murderer picked out @41% and even had a hunch about the motive ... because the setup of this story reminded me of a Graham Greene story.
The downside of all this was that the following 59% of the book were pure tedium.
It is a shame because the Preview of the book, where we get a snap shot of the discovery of the victim before the story has even been set up, made for fun reading. Unfor...more
Dec 12, 2015Raven rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Billed as a classic Christmas mystery with mulled wine, mince pies and murder, I have taken a small step out of my comfort zone, as traditional country house murders are not usually my thing. However, it is with some delight that I can report that I really rather enjoyed this Christie-esque mystery with its oddball cast of characters, and a rather intriguing amateur detective, Mordecai Tremaine…
Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend...more
Having enjoyed, “Murder for Motive,” I was interested to read the second mystery featuring Mordecai Tremaine.
Mordecai Tremaine has been invited to spend Christmas at the country house of Benedict Grame. He is surprised at the invitation, as, although he met Grame, and his companion and secretary, Nicholas Blaise, he does not know them well. However, he is intrigued by a postscript to the invitation, by the secretary, asking for his help and he decides to go.
Christmas Eve brings snow, and a col...more
Oct 19, 2017Jess (Primrose) rated it liked it · review of another edition
I normally fall in love with the quintessential British murder mystery landscape. A house party, a smattering of assorted guests with hidden agendas, a sleuth in the midst, and ultimately a murder. You would even think I'd love this one more so since it takes place at Christmas! Yet, despite a few Agatha Christie references, this one fell flat. I just couldn't get into the story and it felt like a rehearsed play devoid of depth. If that makes sense? The characters were somewhat interesting, yet...more
Dec 07, 2015Judy rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I found this a very enjoyable Golden Age mystery, with a strong festive atmosphere. It's set at a house party, with a motley selection of guests, including Duncan's series detective, mild-mannered tobacconist Mordecai Tremaine, who has a secret passion for romantic literature.
Inevitably, Tremaine finds himself having to investigate a murder and unravelling the secrets of his fellow-guests. The book is very well written, witty and readable, and kept me guessing to the end (I did guess the killer...more
Dec 06, 2018Abigail Bok rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Unless you're a superfan of Golden Age mysteries set in a country house party at Christmas, I don't recommend reading two of them back to back, as I just did with this and Envious Casca. Both feature an ill-assorted crew of cranky people who don't want to celebrate the holidays together, with mutual animus that leads to a murder.
In this effort, amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is invited to spend Christmas in the home of a man he's barely met; the host's private secretary has added a personal me...more
Dec 02, 2018Susan in NC rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Well, that was a satisfying and twisty motive - well done! I really enjoyed this, my first Mordecai Tremaine mystery, read with the Reading the Detectives group.
I love British Golden Age mysteries, but wanted to explore authors I had missed over the years; I really like this amateur sleuth, and will look for Duncan’s other mysteries. At first, I wasn’t really drawn in, because several of the Christmas house party guests seemed edgy and unhappy to be present, which confused me; also, there wasn’t...more
Dec 01, 2017Barb in Maryland rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Very clever mystery with an absolutely charming amateur detective.
Mordecai Tremaine is 60+ yr old bachelor with a fondness for solving mysteries. By nature an optimist and a romantic, with a hefty dose of sentimentality, he really wants to believe that people are good. However, he also possesses a sharp intellect and the willingness to confront evil when it appears. I loved him.
The author has a fine style and a nice touch with the characters, all of whom were deftly presented. This is a classic...more
Dec 28, 2018Jazz rated it really liked it
Shelves: mystery-holiday, series, mystery-country-house, golden-age-mystery-pre-1950, best-of-2018, amateur-sleuth, mystery-british
Very much enjoyed this Golden Age mystery set in a country house at Christmas. A closed group of suspects with an amateur detective among the group makes for an intriguing murder mystery. And of course, Mordecai Tremaine explains all in the end bringing it to a satisfying conclusion. Great fun! I’d never heard of Duncan before but will eagerly seek out his other books now that a number are back in print.
Dec 19, 2017John Frankham rated it really liked it
Good fun in this golden age whodunit. If a Father Christmas is murdered, is it the man intended? And perhaps more than one house guest was dressed as him and seen out in the house and garden that Xmas eve!
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'A festive mystery for the holiday season: mulled wine, mince pies... and murder
When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome--but so too are tensio...more
Nov 29, 2017Donna Maguire rated it really liked it
Shelves: kindle-read, net-galley-books-read, crime-mystery-suspense, historical-fiction, 2017-books-read
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I really enjoyed this book, it was reminiscent of the books written by Agatha Christie and it had an almost cosy murder feel to it. It is a well written book from that period and I really enjoyed the word play and the detail put in to the characters and the story itself.
The majority of books released at the moment are quite gruesome and this one was quite a nice refreshing change (it was released initially back in 1949) and I really enjoyed it - 4 stars f...more
That was an entertaining classic murder mystery and it was exactly what I expected it to be. I wasn't expecting something extraordinary but rather a nice little guessing game.
I got this thanks to the likable Mordecai Tremaine, who is an elderly hobby detective and a very good observer. He was invited to spend Christmas in a big country house with a lot of different people. Of cause there is a murder and of cause our detective starts to investigate by observing his surroundings and by talking wi...more
Nov 10, 2017Maxine rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Amateur detective Mordecai Tremaine has been invited to spend the Christmas holidays at the home of Benedict Grame. Although this is Tremaine’s first invitation to this annual party, most of the guests are regular visitors. Along with his invitation, he had received a note from Grame’s secretary, Nicholas Blaise, who is worried that something may be wrong with Grame. Tremaine may be an amateur but he is determined to keep an eye on everyone. And it turns out that Blaine had reason to worry. Ever...more
Dec 13, 2018Jennifer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A delightful cozy mystery.
Francis Duncan is a hidden gem and I’m so happy his work has been dusted off with some new life breathed into it.
Dec 10, 2018Niki Estes rated it really liked it · review of another edition
While Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan was first published in 1949, it has all the elements of the cozy mysteries published during the Golden Age of Crime Fiction. The story takes place at the large Sherbroome house recently purchased by Benedict Grame, who delights in throwing large, old-fashioned Christmas parties complete with an appearance by Father Christmas. Sounds like the perfect holiday, but tensions are inexplicably running high. Mordecai Tremaine is invited to join the festive g...more
Nov 13, 2017Susan rated it really liked it
Gentle, sentimental Mordecai Tremaine is not your average detective, but a retired businessman with a nose for crime. He's been invited by an acquaintance to spend a good, old-fashioned Christmas at his country estate, but the other guests seem fidgety and uneasy--and that's before Father Christmas is found murdered beneath the richly-ornamented Christmas tree. Originally published in 1949, this is not a fast-moving novel by any means, but it has its charms.
I wanted to like this book so much, but I really didn't. I felt the author did not do enough to establish the necessary mood of suspicion and fear. Too many characters, none well defined, so I didn't care about any of them. I just didn't enjoy it.
Nov 26, 2017Kay (aka) Miss Bates rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Miss Bates launches her annual Christmas romance reviewing month with … a Christmas-set murder mystery, a “not-a-romance” review of Francis Duncan’s 1949 Murder For Christmas. (Duncan’s work was recently reissued, revived, and thank the Good Lord for that, because it’s glorious.) And yet, Murder For Christmas contains a vein of commentary about Miss Bates’s most beloved and oft-read genre in the voice of Duncan’s romance-reading, old-bachelor, amateur sleuth, Mordecai Tremaine, an engaging, love...more
Oct 08, 2017Serendipity Loves added it · review of another edition
A golden age, style mystery murder. This has the feel of Agatha Christie - Miss Marple - and we love her. Mordecai Tremaine
A classic mystery, set in Sherbroome House at Christmas time. A home owned by Benedict Grame, a house full of festive cheer, guests all around a Christmas tree. Nicholas Blaise, Grame's secretary fears something is a miss and has invited Mordecai Tremaine to spend the festive season with them.
On Christmas Eve, a woman’s scream is heard, Father Christmas is found sprawled d...more
2016 Christmas book Reading binge -- Amid the mulled wine, mince pies, stern butler and new fallen snow, amateur detective and lover of romance novels Mortecai Tremaine finds a cluster of oddly tense city folks gathered at Benedict Grame's annual Manor house Christmas party near the in the small country village.
Tipped by the title, the body of a guest, dressed as Father Christmas is discovered in the midnight hours of Christmas Eve, sprawled, under the Christmas tree. In Agatha Christie fashion...more
Dec 11, 2018Sue rated it liked it
This was a good mystery with plenty of information and clues to be chewed over by the reader. It had believable characters and a good plot. The basic premise for the murder was unusual, which made it even more interesting than the typical country house murder story.
Mordecai Tremaine has been invited to the house for Christmas by the owner, Benedict Grame, but with further encouragement from his secretary Nicholas, who says he is worried about something specific which he doesn't want to mention...more
Jan 21, 2019Dawn Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: audiobook-scribd, books-read-in-2019, already-own, historical-mysteries-read
Ummmmm...OKAY? That ending was C R A Z Y T O W N!!!
I really enjoyed this story and I was totally clueless as to who did it [though I had clues closer to the end and reveal] and the end was...wow. My only complaint was how many time the author felt the need to write out the MC 's full name. I know his name is Mordecai Tremaine - you do not have to remind me 17 times in 3 paragraphs.
This is a good series and I am looking forward to the next one.
Dec 17, 2018Rage rated it really liked it
I liked the bit at the end about the author's identity. the fact that this was actually written years ago made me enjoy it more. the writing is a bit maudlin (there's like a sense of doom around the house, Tremaine keeps running into people whose faces are malevolent) but overall the concept of the country house mystery is so classic, and the seasonal details were so charming (and important plot elements, even), that I did really enjoy this.
This book was very slow to get started, taking 8 chapters just to set the scene, however, the twists and turns were very interesting and the ending was very surprising. All in all these was a very fun mystery.
Dec 10, 2016Jill rated it really liked it · review of another edition
thoroughly enjoyable. Mordecai Tremayne is not your usual British sleuth.
Jan 15, 2018Stacie Haden rated it liked it
Shelves: first-in-series, z-england, ireland-or-uk-mystery, europe, historical-mystery, mystery-crime, owned-kindle
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Dec 06, 2017Angela rated it liked it
Okay, but not up to Christie standards.
What a delightful, old-school mystery with an amateur sleuth who is more likeable than Hercule Poirot, but just as insightful and observant.
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Francis Duncan is the pseudonym for William Walter Frank Underhill, who was born in 1914. He lived virtually all his life in Bristol and was a 'scholarship boy' boarder at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school. Due to family circumstances he was unable to go to university and started work in the Housing Department of Bristol City Council. Writing was always important to him and very early on he publis...more
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