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Contents • • • • Life and work [ ] Gordon Clark was born in, the third son of Henry Herbert Gordon Clark of Hall, a merchant in the wine and spirit trade, & Sons being the family firm. The socialist politician was his aunt. He was educated at St Aubyn's, Rottingdean and. He read History at (where he heard say in a sermon that 'now we see through a dark glassly') and graduated with a First.

He then studied law and was called to the Bar at in 1924. 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 (daughter of ) in 1933.

They had one son, Charles Philip Gordon Clark (clergyman, later dry stone waller), and two daughters, (Lady Wedgwood, architectural historian, see ) and Cecilia Mary Gordon Clark (Cecilia Snell, musician, who married ). As a young man and during the early days of the, Gordon Clark toured as a judge's marshal, an experience he used in Tragedy at Law. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the office of the. At the beginning of the war he served a short time at the, and the wartime civil service with many temporary members appears in With a Bare Bodkin. In 1950 he was appointed judge in. His best-known novel is Tragedy at Law, in which he drew on his legal expertise and in which he introduced Francis Pettigrew, a not very successful barrister who in this and four other novels just happens to elucidate aspects of the crime. His professional detective (they appeared together in three novels, and only one has neither of them present) was a large and realistic police officer, Inspector Mallett, with a vast appetite.

Tragedy at Law has never been out of print, and described it in 1999 as 'still among the best whodunnits set in the legal world.' Went further and wrote that it 'is generally acknowledged to be the best detective story set in that fascinating world.' It appeared at no.

Of his other full-length novels, Suicide Excepted shows a man committing an almost perfect, only to find that a quirk of the insurance laws deprives him of the reward. Cyril Hare's short stories were mostly written for the. Among them, The Story of Hermione, in which the eponymous character grows rich from the all too convenient deaths of several relatives, has been called one of the most chilling short stories ever written; Sister Bessie describes vividly the agonies of a victim and the desperate crimes he commits in the hope of freeing himself from his tormentor.

Miss Burnside's Dilemma describes the predicament of a person who uncovers a piece of unscrupulous, but entirely legal chicanery by someone she had previously admired. Slider Revolution Responsive Jquery Plugin Download Free. He was a member of the. Having suffered from shortly after the Gordon Clark was never again in full health and died at his home near, at the age of only 57.