An English Murder, Cyril Hare
An English Murder, Cyril Hare
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An English Murder

Author: Cyril Hare

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/12/2019

Synopsis

A country house murder mystery classic, as a party find themselves snowed-in on Christmas Eve with a murderer among them . . .

The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. All is set for a lovely Christmas, with friends and family gathered round the fire, except as the bells chime midnight, a murder is committed. But who is responsible? The scorned young lover? The lord's passed-over cousin? The social climbing politician's wife? The Czech history professor? The obsequious butler? And perhaps the real question is: Can they survive long enough to find out?

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 practiced 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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Goodreads review by ⊱ Sonja ⊰

Ein unterhaltsamer Weihnachtskrimi! Eigentlich beinhaltet die Geschichte alles, was ich sehr gerne lese: Ein Setting in England, ein altes Landgut, eine Familie eingeschneit zu Weihnachten und der Sohn des Hausherren, der an einer Zyankali-Vergiftung stirbt. Jetzt heißt es natürlich, den Mörder zu f......more

Goodreads review by Mara

This was a delightful little gem of a book that I would never have picked up without happening upon it in a London bookshop, so hurrah for the power of in person discovery! This could not be more aptly titled because oh my lord, this is just such a quintessential British mystery of the era. It has t......more

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