A crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Gently, originally published in 1957, in which Gently's fishing holiday is interrupted by the discovery of a local man's body in a burnt out boat. From the author of JACKPOT!, GENTLY DOES IT, BOMBER'S MOON and GENTLY IN THE GLENS.
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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 1956, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82.
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Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Black Boards with silver lettering to spine. Pages are clean and firm binding . Dustjacket is not clipped. Book and jacket are in fine unread condition. Seller Inventory # 4088
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Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First printing of this edition. A volume in the Constable Crime series. First impression of this reissued edition. Third in the series of Chief Inspector George Gently novels. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 99577
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus - reissue. A constable Crime Reissue of this popular george Gently series; this book looks unread; ; Chief Inspector George Gently; Constable Crime; Vol. 3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 90384
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Octavo, pp (2), 186, a little age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has only the slightest signs of use. Seller Inventory # 018486
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