Summary
Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country, fishing for pike, Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall, a nearby stately home, is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning.
At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident, but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions and is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder.
Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849015011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849015015 |
| Author: | Mr Alan Hunter |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 116mm x 178mm x 16mm |
| Series: | George Gently |
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About The Author
Mr Alan Hunter
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.
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