Cyril Hare
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Cyril Hare (born 1900 September 4) was a British mystery writer, lawyer, and country court judge, whose best known detective character is Francis Pettigrew. He wrote Tragedy at Law (1942), widely acclaimed as one of the great classics of detective novel.
Hareʼs Tragedy at Law fell in the hands of Michael Gilbert while he was a prisoner of war during World War II, and it inspired him later in his career as a mystery writer. Gilbert edited the posthumous Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare (1959).
