Tag Archives: Cyril Hare

Book of the Month: March 2017

Posted on March 31, 2017 by armchairreviewer

This month’s reading has been varied to say the least in terms of quality and in terms of content. I’ve managed to squeeze in reading two non-fiction books on crime fiction as well so I’ll be doing a separate Book … Continue reading →

Posted in Book of the Month | Tagged Book of the Month, Cyril Hare, Delano Ames, Dorothy L. Sayers, Henry Ware Eliot Jr, Ione Montgomery, J. W. Vandercook, John Rhode, Sebastian Japrisot, Tyline Perry | 2 Comments

Tenant for Death (1937) by Cyril Hare

Posted on March 14, 2017 by armchairreviewer

Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Shadowy Figure Rich at his blog Past Offences runs a monthly Crimes of the Century Challenge and this month’s chosen year is 1937, so I decided to review Cyril Hare’s first Inspector Mallett novel, Tenant … Continue reading →

Posted in In the dock | Tagged Cyril Hare, Golden Age Detective Fiction, Inspector Mallett, Tenant for Death | 18 Comments

With a Bare Bodkin (1946) by Cyril Hare

Posted on March 8, 2017 by armchairreviewer

Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Telephone With a Bare Bodkin (1946) is a wartime set mystery, with Francis Pettigrew leaving his chambers to work as a legal advisor for Pin Control in Marsett Bay. Whilst at Marsett Bay, Pettigrew is … Continue reading →

Posted in In the dock | Tagged Cyril Hare, Francis Pettigrew, Suicide Excepted, Tragedy at Law, When the Wind Blows, With a Bare Bodkin, World War 2 | 9 Comments

Tuesday Night Bloggers: First Encounters

Posted on January 10, 2017 by armchairreviewer

To kick the year off the Tuesday Night Bloggers are looking at crime fiction firsts this month. Already we have had posts looking at the origins of detective fiction, John Dickson Carr’s Dr Fell series and J. J. Connington’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in Tuesday Night Bloggers | Tagged Cyril Hare, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Georgette Heyer, Gladys Mitchell, John Dickson Carr, Josephine Tey, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes, Ngaio Marsh, Tuesday Night Bloggers | 28 Comments

My Year in Christmas Reads

Posted on December 3, 2016 by armchairreviewer

Now most normal people save their Christmas themed mystery novels until December, or November at very earliest. Not me it seems. Looking back at this year from about March I have been inadvertently reading mystery novels set at Christmas. Sometimes … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Camilla Lackberg, Carter Dickson, Christmas Mysteries, Craig Rice, Cyril Hare, Joan Coggin, Lorna Nicholl Morgan, Maureen Sarsfield, Molly Thynne | 2 Comments

Deadly Dinner Parties

Posted on June 4, 2016 by armchairreviewer

Spoiler warning: For readers who haven’t read Christie’s 4:50 from Paddington and Lord Edgware Dies I would avoid section one of this post. Not everyone is a fan of dinner parties. They can be incredibly stressful for the host and/or … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Agatha Christie, Clyde B. Clason, Cyril Hare, Dorothy L. Sayers, Golden Age Detective Fiction, Hans Olav Lahlum, Herman Koch, J. Jefferson Farjeon, John Dickson Carr, John Rhode, L. C. Tyler, Margery Allingham, Michael Innes, Patricia Wentworth | 6 Comments

Book of the Month: May 2016

Posted on May 30, 2016 by armchairreviewer

It has been a busy month on the blog with 14 reviews, a post looking at Agatha Christie in translation with contributors from all over the world and a series of spoof posts looking at what Christie has to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Book of the Month | Tagged An English Murder, Book of the Month, Case for Three Detectives, Clyde B. Clason, Cyril Hare, Dragon's Cave, Frances Crane, Leo Bruce, Martha Ockley, The Golden Box, The Reluctant Detective | 3 Comments

An English Murder (1951) by Cyril Hare

Posted on May 11, 2016 by armchairreviewer

It has been a while since I have read a novel by Cyril Hare (the last being When the Wind Blows (1949)). Hare was the pen name for Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark and the crimes in Hare’s stories often have … Continue reading →

Posted in In the dock | Tagged An English Murder, Christmas Mystery, Country House Mystery, Cyril Hare | 11 Comments

Cyril Hare’s When the Wind Blows (1949)

Posted on August 16, 2015 by armchairreviewer

Writers using their past careers and experiences to influence their work is sufficiently common to almost be classed as an author’s cliché. Crime fiction is no different. Ngaio Marsh drew upon her time in the theatre, Juanita Sheridan her … Continue reading →