Sorted on book title (not in series order)
These thirty stories, selected and introduced by Michael Gilbert, are concerned with murder, criminal acts and the law and can be dipped into in any order.
'The Rivals' contains a real puzzle; 'Name of Smith' features a judge's summing-up and a murder; 'The Story of Hermione' has...Read more
Daylesford Gardens, South Kensington, is an unlikely address for the discovery of death by strangulation.
Even more unusual is that the house does not belong to the deceased financier.
In the meantime, the mysterious tenant, Colin James, has disappeared.
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Tragedy at Law follows a very important High Court judge, Judge Barber, as he moves from place to place presiding over cases in the Southern England area. When an anonymous letter arrives for the judge with a warning.Read more
Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife - an area in which as a young boy he was traumatised 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...Read more
A shocking murder during a concert by the Markshire Orchestra sets a gory musical puzzle for Honorary Treasurer Francis Pettigrew, barrister hero of Cyril Hare's classic detective stories, Tragedy at Law, With a Bare Bodkin and That Yew Tree's Shade.Read more
As Golden Age authors go, Cyril Hare has got to be one of my all time favourites, mostly because of his style. In THE WIND BLOWS DEATH (originally published as When the Wind Blows) there's a nicely complex plot - which frankly the reader is never going to be able to guess unless you're an...Read more