Untimely Death, Cyril Hare
Untimely Death, Cyril Hare
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Untimely Death

Author: Cyril Hare

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife—an area in which as a young boy he was traumatized by coming across a dead body on the moor. In an attempt to exorcise this trauma, Pettigrew walks across the moor to the place where the incident occurred—only to find another dead body. Moreover, when he returns to the scene with the police, the body is gone. Did he really see a body, or is it a hallucination conjured up by his return to the scene of the crime that has haunted him since childhood? In Untimely Death, Cyril Hare conjures up an intriguing puzzle whose twists and turns will keep listeners on the edge of their seats until the final surprising resolution.

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 Lady Wesley on October 11, 2022

Review of the audiobook narrated by Chris MacDonnell 3.5 stars This book was published in 1958, well after the real "Golden Age of Mystery," but apart from a few mundane details it could just as easily have been set in 1938. It is a skillfully crafted good, old-fashioned murder mystery. I recommend it......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on August 11, 2022

The writing was great, the story interesting, the twist somewhat foreseeable - but what I simply cannot forgive is that one dead body was left unresolved. How can the cover blurb highlight the mindboggling coincidence of two dead bodies in the same location, but 50 plus years apart, and then complet......more

Goodreads review by Puzzle on February 13, 2019

Perfectly fine but unexceptional Mystery. Full review at classicmystery.blog......more

Goodreads review by David on September 27, 2020

Quite satisfying, amusing late Golden Age detection. Frank Pettigrew, walking on Exmoor with his wife among the stag hunters, captures a riderless pony which bolts off with him aboard after it is startled by the dead body of a man, briefly seen by the rider. This relives an identical childhood incide......more

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