The Main Character/ ''Hilary''

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The main character of the story was Hilary Smith. Hilary Smith belonged to a good family. Hilary, who never worked, had expensive tastes and many unpaid bills, and had some trouble with the bank about a few cheques. Hilary was sent by his father to Australia immediately.

Hilary did not like Australia, and Australia did not like Hilary. However, since he had no money, he had to wait until his father and his brother died. He received all the money which belonged to the good old family and returned to England.

It took Hilary quite a short time to spend the money he received. Then, he discovered that he had a rich aunt, his father's only sister. Years ago, after marrying Mr. Prothero, a small business owner instead of a lord, she was dead to her brother.

So Hilary appeared in his aunt's life. Aunt Mary seemed to like him, and soon he was able to move into her house. Aunt Mary was very ill and she was slowly dying. Hilary found out that before her marriage, she made a will and left all her money to a religious group in China. However, Hilary examined some law books and found out that when a woman married, an earlier will was no longer legal.

Hilary knew that he was his aunt's only relative, so his future was safe. However, Hilary's financial problems became serious and he decided to poison his aunt, so that he would get her money.

Aunt Mary suspected that her nephew wanted to kill her, but she was so sick that she didn't care. However, seconds before drinking the poisoned drink Hilary fixed her, she told him she was never married to late Mr. Prothero. They were living together as husband and wife but never actually married each other.

The plot took place in England. Hilary Smith belonged to a good family. Hilary, who never worked, had expensive tastes and many unpaid bills, and had some trouble with the bank about a few cheques. Hilary was sent by his father to Australia immediately.

Hilary did not like Australia, and Australia did not like Hilary. However, since he had no money, he had to wait until his father and his brother died. He received all the money which belonged to the good old family and returned to England.

It took Hilary quite a short time to spend the money he received. Then, he discovered that he had a rich aunt, his father's only sister. Years ago, after marrying Mr. Prothero, a small business owner instead of a lord, she was dead to her brother.

So Hilary appeared in his aunt's life. Aunt Mary seemed to like him, and soon he was able to move into her house. Aunt Mary was very ill and she was slowly dying. Hilary found out that before her marriage, she made a will and left all her money to a religious group in China. However, Hilary examined some law books and found out that when a woman married, an earlier will was no longer legal.

Hilary knew that he was his aunt's only relative, so his future was safe. However, Hilary's financial problems became serious and he decided to poison his aunt, so that he would get her money.

Aunt Mary suspected that her nephew wanted to kill her, but she was so sick that she didn't care. However, seconds before drinking the poisoned drink Hilary fixed her, she told him she was never married to late Mr. Prothero. They were living together as husband and wife but never actually married each other.

The plot took place in England. Hilary Smith belonged to a good family. Hilary, who never worked, had expensive tastes and many unpaid bills, and had some trouble with the bank about a few cheques. Hilary was sent by his father to Australia immediately.

Hilary did not like Australia, and Australia did not like Hilary. However, since he had no money, he had to wait until his father and his brother died. He received all the money which belonged to the good old family and returned to England.

It took Hilary quite a short time to spend the money he received. Then, he discovered that he had a rich aunt, his father's only sister. Years ago, after marrying Mr. Prothero, a small business owner instead of a lord, she was dead to her brother.

So Hilary appeared in his aunt's life. Aunt Mary seemed to like him, and soon he was able to move into her house. Aunt Mary was very ill and she was slowly dying. Hilary found out that before her marriage, she made a will and left all her money to a religious group in China. However, Hilary examined some law books and found out that when a woman married, an earlier will was no longer legal.

Hilary knew that he was his aunt's only relative, so his future was safe. However, Hilary's financial problems became serious and he decided to poison his aunt, so that he would get her money.

Aunt Mary suspected that her nephew wanted to kill her, but she was so sick that she didn't care. However, seconds before drinking the poisoned drink Hilary fixed her, she told him she was never married to late Mr. Prothero. They were living together as husband and wife but never actually married each other.

Cyril Hare / The author of "Hilary's Aunt''

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Brirtish mystery writer, who was also a lawyer and a judge in England. His knowledge on the law helped him in his stories.
Hare's most famous work is TRAGEDY AT LAW (1942), widely acclaimed as one of the great classics of detective novel. Hare's principal series characters were Ispector Mallet and a fellow barrister Francis Pettigrew, who first appeared in Tragedy at Law as an unhappy, near-defeated aging lawyer. In WITH A BARE BODKIN (1946) he meets Miss Eleanor Brown, a young woman half his age, and later has peaceful retirement in HE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER (1958).
Cyril Hare was born in Mickleham, Surrey, as Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark. He studied at the New College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1924, fulfilling his part of the family tradition. At the bar Hare's practice was largely in the civil and criminal courts in and around London. During World War II Hare toured as a judge's marshal for some time. This experience formed the background for Tragedy at Law. In 1942 he started to work as Temporary Legal Assistant in the Director of Public Prosecutions Department. He then served with the Ministry of Economic Warfare. From 1950 he was County Court Judge in Surrey. Hare's work then concerned civil disputes only.
After some occasional sketches for Punch and other journals, Hare published his first mystery novel, TENANT FOR DEATH (1937). It dealt with the disappearance of a financier, who is the found dead in South Kensington. The well-received debut was followed by DEATH IS NO SPORTSMAN (1938), and SUICIDE EXPECTED (1939), which were good, solid mysteries, but did not drew to any great extent on his legal background. Hare's great interest in music is seen in WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1949). Tragedy at Law was set in the legal world. In the story Mr Justice Barber, journeying from court to court, receives threatening notes and a mysterious stranger arranges nasty surprises for him, until on page 253 out of a total of 290, the dagger gets thrust between his shoulders. Pettigrew appears as an amateur detective, who doesn't have much pages between the murder and its solution.
In With a Bare Bodkin Hare returned to the atmosphere of WW II. The story is set in a remote part of Britain, Marsett Bay, where Francis Pettigrew and his civil service branch is sent to escape the Blitz. Hare keeps the pace slow, plays with the labyrinth of fiction within fiction, and murder doesn't occur until halfway through the book. Pettigrew falls in love with his secretary, Miss Brown, who is courted by a widowed man who much her senior. In AN ENGLISH MURDER (1951) Hare used the conventional setting-a country house-and the usual suspects-there is a butler-but managed to come out with an original and fresh tale. An English Christmas party is disturbed by a murder and a Czech refugee, Br. Bottwink, starts to help Scotland Yard. The book was made into a two-part television film in the Soviet Union under the title A Very English Murder (1975), directed by Samson Samsonov and produced by Mosfilm. Hare was not a prolific short story writer, but he nevertheless contributed stories to three CWA (the Crime Writers' Association) anthologies, Choise of Weapons (1958), edited by Michael Gilbert, Planned Departures (1958), edited by Elizabeth Ferrars, and Some Like Them Dead (1960), edited by Roy Vickers. 'Name of Smith' (1952), first published in the Evening Standard, illustarates Hare's ability to inject into his stories questions about truth and justice without being didactic. Based mostly on dialogue, it tells of a judge, "an old ruffian", whose soft side is revealed to his colleagues only after his death. The story was reperinted in Mysterious Pleasures (2003), celebrating the 50th anniversary of CWA.