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Untimely Death
Written by Cyril Hare
Narrated by Chris MacDonnell
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Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife-an area in which as a young boy he was traumatized 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 another dead body. Moreover, when he returns to the scene with the police, the body is gone. Did he really see a body, or is it a hallucination conjured up by his return to the scene of the crime that has haunted him since childhood? In Untimely Death, Cyril Hare conjures up an intriguing puzzle whose twists and turns will keep listeners on the edge of their seats until the final surprising resolution.
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Cyril Hare
Cyril Hare (Mickleham, 1900-Box Hill, 1958) fue el seudónimo de Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, quien como distinguido juez y abogado dedicó su vida a la jurisprudencia. Escribió nueve novelas policiacas y multitud de relatos inspirados directamente por su experiencia profesional.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cyril Hare is one of the classic mystery writers. So glad to find his great book in an excellent audio version. A treat for lovers of the old-school British mystery.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Francis Pettigrew finds a dead body on the moor while he and his wife are on holiday at Exmoor. However, the body is gone by the time he gets back with help. Another dead body is discovered on the moor two days later, but this person had died just that morning.The mystery of just exactly when did the deceased die is linked to a inheritance of a nearby estate.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am sure that I have read this before (say 25-30 years ago) but I had no inkling of a memory during this reread. I was glad to see Inspector Mallett, now retired, in this final book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hare's lawyer detective and his young wife return to stay in a farmhouse on the edge of Exmoor where he had stayed as a boy. While out riding a pony, he sees what appears to be a corpse; his pony bolts, when he returns the corpse is gone --but he recalls having seen a body in the same place many years before. Meanwhile other mysterious events are happening --a man is paying a late night visit to the daughter of the couple who run the farm. Note this story is dedicated to Michael Gilbert, another skilled writer of British legal mysteries I like.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An excellent "cosy" murder story, once again featuring self-effacing barrister Francis Pettigrew. This time Frank ventures out on holiday to Exmoor with his wife Eleanor, and finds himself staying at the same boarding house thwat he visited as a child some 50 years previously. This awakens long-forgottens memories of a horrific incident from his childhood which has unfortuante and disquieting resonances with the present. While out on a stroll Frank dicovers a dead body but, by the time he has summoned help in the shape of the local stag-hunting pack the corpse has disappeared. It reappears two days later and a murder enquiry ensues.Little more is heard of the matter until some months later when Frank is subpoenaed to appear in a chancery case to determine the appropriate apportionment of the estate of a local luminary whose family abounded. It transpires that the precise time and date of the death of the corpse will determine the settlement of the estate as the deceased was a potential beneficiary in a complicated tontoine-style will.As ever, Hare handles his material with a deft touch, paying due reverence to the legal niceties without ever letting the reader become bogged down in technicalities. And, as one has come to expect from his novels, the denouement still catches the reader out, though all the clues were clearly shown!