Death Is No Sportsman/an Inspector Mallett Mystery - Softcover

Hare, Cyril

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060805552 ISBN 13: 9780060805555

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

Police Inspector Mallett must call upon his knowledge of angling techniques and lore to catch the killer who suddenly strikes a group of fly fishermen vacationing in rural England

About this title

Review:

'A "fair play" thriller with no outrageously red herrings drawn across the trail. The identity of the murderer is really a surprise.' - -- Daily Mirror

'More than well worth reading' - -- Observer

About the Author:

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 practised 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060805552
• ISBN 13: 9780060805555
• Binding: Paperback