With a Bare Bodkin Cyril Hare

Name: With a Bare Bodkin By Cyril Hare
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With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare

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SeriesFrancis Pettigrew mysteries

Summary

The Blitz has forced the evacuation of various government offices from London and Pettigrew accompanies his ministry to the distant seaside resort of Marsett Bay. In this strange atmosphere, Pettigrew begins to fall in love with his secretary, who is also being courted by a widowed man much older than her.

With a Bare Bodkin Summary

With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare

In With a Bare Bodkin (1946) Cyril Hare (nom de plume of Alfred Gordon Clark) revived the character of Francis Pettigrew, the barrister and amateur sleuth introduced to us in 1942's Tragedy at Law.

The Blitz has forced the evacuation of various government offices from London and Pettigrew accompanies his ministry to the distant seaside resort of Marsett Bay. In this strange atmosphere, Pettigrew begins to fall in love with his secretary, who is also being courted by a widowed man much older than her. Bored and restless, the ministers start playing a light-hearted game of 'Plan the perfect murder' to pass the time. Pettigrew is detached from the silliness - until a real murder happens, and he is drawn into solving the mystery.

'One of the best detective stories published for a long time.' Spectator

About Cyril Hare

Cyril Hare was the pseudonym for the distinguished lawyer Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark. He was born in Surrey, in 1900, and was educated at Rugby and Oxford. A member of the Inner Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1924 and joined the chambers of Roland Oliver, who handled many of the great crime cases of the 1920s. He practised as a barrister until the Second World War, after which he served in various legal and judicial capacities including a time as a county court judge in Surrey. Hare's crime novels, many of which draw on his legal experience, have been praised by Elizabeth Bowen and P.D. James among others. He died in 1958 - at the peak of his career as a judge, and at the height of his powers as a master of the whodunit.

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Sku

GOR005851929

ISBN 13

9780571247455

ISBN 10

0571247458

Title

With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare

Author

Cyril Hare

Series

Francis Pettigrew mysteries

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20081127

Number of pages

204

Prizes

N/A

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