Tragedy at Law, Cyril Hare
Tragedy at Law, Cyril Hare
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Tragedy at Law

Author: Cyril Hare

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/21/2019

Synopsis

Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr. Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the Southern England circuit. When an anonymous letter arrives for Barber, warning of imminent revenge, he dismisses it as the work of a harmless lunatic. But then a second letter appears, followed by a poisoned box of the judge's favorite chocolates, and he begins to fear for his life. Enter barrister and amateur detective Francis Pettigrew, a man who was once in love with Barber's wife and has never quite succeeded in his profession; can he find out who is threatening Barber before it is too late?

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on January 06, 2025

Tragedy at Law is one of the classics of golden age mystery stories, and has never been out of print ever since it was first published in 1942. Yet the author is not as widely known outside the genre as his peers, such as Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr or Dorothy L. Sayers. In fact general reade......more

Goodreads review by DeAnna on June 03, 2018

A judge commits a crime of negligence after receiving a death threat...a crime that might completely derail his career, if the person writing the death threats doesn't get him first! I liked this but called it pretty early, then spent the rest of the book paranoid that my solution was a red herring.......more

Goodreads review by Charles on December 30, 2022

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Goodreads review by Bev on June 21, 2013

Judge William Hereward Barber's tour of England's Southern Circuit begins as normally as possible in wartime--true there are no trumpets (as Judge Barber mentions many times), but there is still plenty of pop and circumstance and the scarlet and wig to wear. The court calendar is full of the usual c......more

Goodreads review by Sam on June 21, 2018

Published in 1942 and set in the early months of the Second World War, this unusual mystery is probably Cyril Hare's best known book. Hare (the pseudonym for real-life judge Gordon Clark) wrote legal thrillers before they were a genre; this one illuminates the peculiar English institution of the Ass......more

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