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The Inspector George Gently Case Files
– Book V
Alan Hunter
Robinson (Constable and
Robinson)
21 April 2011/ ISBN 1849015023
Historical Mystery / 1958 Norfolk, England / Holiday: Easter
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by Rachel A Hyde
On Good Friday the staff at a bakery in the small town of Lynton
make a strange find in their hopper of spoiled flour – a dead
body. Chief Inspector George Gently is called in to investigate
the murder of one Steinie Taylor, a petty crook more usually at
home in London than in a rural bakery. Why had he and two other
criminal cronies been seen in Lynton just prior to Easter throwing
money around, and why have the other two vanished?
One of the many things I like about this series is the author’s
ability to describe a place and time so well. You can almost smell
the spring blossoms in this dusty little town, mixed in with the
aromas from an old bakery that has supplied the town for many years.
Mr Hunter might not deliver a multi-stranded tortuous plot or much
in the way of action but this simple, linear tale has the power
to transport the reader back in time to the 1950s. Anybody interested
in the period would do well to read these books, but then so would
anybody who enjoys a good police procedural the way they used to
write them.
Other
reviews in this series
Gently
Does It - Book
I
Gently by the Shore – Book
II
Gently Down The Stream – Book
III
Landed Gently – Book
IV
Gently Through the Mill - Book
V
Gently In The Sun – Book
VI
Gently With The Painters –
Book VII
Gently To The Summit – Book
VIII
Gently Go Man - Book
IX
Gently Where The Roads Go –
Book X
Gently Floating - Book
XI
Gently Sahib - Book
XII
Gently With The Ladies -
Book XIII
Gently Northwest - Book
XV
Gently Continental - Book
XVI
Gently With The Innocents - Book
XVII
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