Gently With the Painters (Black Dagger Crimes) [Hardcover]

Alan Hunter (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1996 | ISBN-10: 0745186750 | ISBN-13: 978-0745186757

Shirley Johnson, a young artist, is found st abbed to death after a meeting of the local Palette Group. T he case falls to newcomer Inspector Stephens, but soon Super intendent George Gently is called in to help out. '

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Alan Hunter was born in Hoveton, Norfolk in 1922. He left school at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, spending his spare time sailing on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the Eastern Evening News. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF during World War II. By 1950, he was running his own book shop in Norwich and in 1955, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 201 pages
• Publisher: Black Dagger Crime (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745186750
• ISBN-13: 978-0745186757
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,302,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read it for the wonderful prose (and the story)!, January 13, 2012

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This review is from: Gently with the Painters (Inspector George Gently 7) (Kindle Edition)

I have read the other Gently books and found them worthwhile; when I saw that this had no reviews, I wanted to write one so that no one missed this Gently case. The plot is interesting and credible, and the characters believable. What makes this Gently case so enjoyable is the writing. It's beautifully and unaffectedly crafted - if your fairy god-mother ever asks you whose writing you'd like to emulate, you would not go wrong to reply with Alan Hunter's name. Enjoy!