Untimely Death by Cyril Hare (1957) aka He Should Have Died Hereafter

When Francis Pettigrew was a boy on holiday in Exmoor, he stumbled onto the body of a dead man on Bolter’s Tussock. Now he and his wife Eleanor are on holiday in Exmoor, staying at Sallowcombe, the same farmhouse in where stayed in his childhood. To exorcist his childhood memory Pettigrew revisits Bolter’s Tussock. He …

Death Walks the Woods by Cyril Hare (1954) aka The Yew Tree’s Shade

The small town of Yewbury is shaken by the seemingly motiveless murder of Mrs. Pink, “a widow, of course, entirely given up to good works.” Motiveless that is until you take into account her very surly landlord Mr. Todman, who wants her out of his cottage, “one way or another.” Or Horace Wendon, Lady Furlong’s …

When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare (1949)

Francis Pettigrew has settled into a quiet law practice, and a life of domesticity. Unfortunately, his wife has settled herself amongst the second violins in the county orchestral society. Why unfortunately? It has resulted in his new role as the society’s treasurer, and his dutiful attendance to anything concerning it. Right now one of those …

With A Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare

With a war on everyone must do their part, and barrister Francis Pettigrew is no exception. As the legal advisor to the Ministry of Pin Control, Pettigrew is sent to Marsett Bay, “somewhere on the Polar Circuit”, where he takes up residence at Fernlea Residential Club. His “brother or sister pin controllers” in residence are …