This is the first of the George Gently series that was begun in 1955. Gently is a Scotland Yard police inspector from the East Anglia section of England who eventually becomes a Chief Superintendent. This case begins while Gently is on vacation and he gets involved in the murder of a mean old man.
The local police force regret asking him to help because he won't let them settle for the easiest to catch and most likely suspect. Gently quietly but surely teases out the truth from a tangle of lies while eating one pepper met cream after another.
What these confections are exactly is unclear, but if he consumes several an hour I wonder that he has any teeth left in his head. Gently is portrayed as a large man who is past worrying about calories. Perhaps Hunter never realized at the time of Gently's debut that he would go on to feature in forty six Gently mysteries the last of which was published i 199. Hunter died in 2005.There was also a BBC series featuring George Gently and it was after seeing an episode that I dug out my old Gentlys and picked up the birth of Gently.
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