| Death Is No Sportsman | |
| Author: | Cyril Hare |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Inspector Mallett |
| Genre: | Detective |
| Release Date: | 1938 |
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| Preceded By: | Tenant for Death |
| Followed By: | Suicide Excepted |
Death Is No Sportsman is a 1938 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare.[1] [2] It was his second novel to feature Inspector Mallett of Scotland Yard.[3] Written during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, it was published by Faber and Faber.[4] The sport of the title refers to angling.[5]
Mallett heads out to the village of Didford Magna on the banks of the River Didder, where there is a mania for fishing, to investigate the death of a businessman. The dead man was a member of party of anglers staying at the local pub the Polworthy Arms and it is here that Mallett begins his investigations.