 First edition | |
| Author | Cyril Hare |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Francis Pettigrew |
| Genre | Detective |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber Little, Brown (US) |
Publication date | 1954 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | When the Wind Blows |
| Followed by | He Should Have Died Hereafter |
That Yew Tree's Shade is a 1954 detective novel by the British writer Cyril Hare.[1] It was the fourth novel in his series featuring Francis Pettigrew, a barrister and amateur detective. It also sees the return from his previous novel When the Wind Blows of the humourless police officer Trimble, now promoted to Superintendent. The novel's setting of a fictional beauty spot in southern England was inspired by Box Hill in the author's native Surrey. The title is taken from a line in Thomas Gray's Elegy. It was first published in London by Faber and Faber and released in the United States by Little, Brown under the alternative title Death Walks the Woods.[2]