Cyril Hare

I think that it is desirable to discuss the affair – here, in the room in which the Bishop’s body was found. A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury. A beloved vicar contemplates a perfect crime when a blackmailer comes knocking. Poisoned pen letters lead to a fall from grace for a rector’s...

The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. With friends and family gathered round the fire, all should be set for a perfect Christmas. However, as the bells chime midnight, a mysterious murder takes place. Who can be responsible? The scorned young lover? The lord's passed-over cousin? The...

Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife—an area where, as a young boy, he was traumatised by coming across a dead body on the Moor. In an attempt to exorcise this trauma, Pettigrew walks across the moor to the place where the incident occurred—only to find a dead body yet again! Moreover, when he returns to...