Cyril Hare | Death Is No Sportsman, 1938

Cyril Hare

Death Is No Sportsman. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1938

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, frontispiece map, original silver cloth lettered in red, DUST-JACKET, minor soiling to spine, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities

As noted by Charles Shibuk in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980), "Hare's reputation as a mystery writer lapsed into obscurity for a decade after his death in 1958, but recent revaluation has established him as a master with at least four major novels and a notable collection of short stories to his credit. Tenant for Death introduced Inspector Mallett, a Scotland Yard detective who is tall and stout, and not unlike Freeman Wills Croft's Inspector Joseph French. This novel and its successor, Death Is No Sportsman, are good, solid detective stories..."

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