Tragedy at Law (Francis Pettigrew #1)
Book Details
| Title: | Tragedy at Law (Francis Pettigrew #1) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1942 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber Limited | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, Francis Pettigrew (Fictional character), mystery | ||||||||||
| Description: | When an anonymous letter arrives for Mr Justice Barber, the High Court judge, 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 favourite chocolates, and he begins to fear for his life. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,259 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 214  |
Author Bio for Clark, Alfred Alexander Gordon
Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English judge and crime writer under the pseudonym Cyril Hare.
Gordon Clark's pseudonym was a mixture of Hare Court, where he worked in the chambers of Roland Oliver, and Cyril Mansions, Battersea, where he lived after marrying Mary Barbara Lawrence (see Lawrence baronets, Ealing Park) in 1933. They had one son, Charles Philip Gordon Clark (clergyman, later dry stone waller), and two daughters, Alexandra Mary Gordon Clark (Lady Wedgwood FSA, architectural historian, see Wedgwood baronets) and Cecilia Mary Gordon Clark (Cecilia Snell, musician, who married Roderick Snell).
As a young man and during the early days of the Second World War, Gordon Clark toured as a judge's marshal, an experience he used in Tragedy at...
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