Cyril Hare

Cyril Hare
1950s Penguin photograph of Hare
Born
Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark

(1900-09-04)4 September 1900
Died25 August 1958(1958-08-25) (aged 57)
Westhumble, Surrey, England
EducationNew College, Oxford
OccupationsCounty court judge
and crime writer
Spouse
Mary Barbara Lawrence
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(m. 1933)​
Children3, including Alexandra Wedgwood
RelativesMartin Wedgwood (son-in-law)
Roderick Snell (son-in-law)
Arthur Snell (grandson)
Writing career
Period1937–1958
GenreCrime Fiction
Notable worksSuicide Excepted (1939)
Tragedy at Law (1942)
An English Murder (1951)
Movement
Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English barrister, judge and crime writer under the pseudonym Cyril Hare.