There's blood in the heather & a murderer on the loose when Gently pays a quite visit to the Highlands of Scotl&. Had Brenda Merryn not been such a stong-willed woman & had she not been so much in love with George Gently, driving all the way to Scotland for a holiday with Gently's sister & brother-in-law might have been a bit of a challenge. Spying on a heavily armed private army of nationalists, being held at gunpoint on the hillside, being held prisoner in a filthy outhouse & becoming involved in a murder would be unthinkable. For Gently, it's all in a day's work & his holiday is put on hold while he stalks a murderer in the mountains, with Brenda by his side. ...

Another paperback crime novel by Alan Hunter in the Inspector George Gently mystery series, Gently Sahib sets itself in the little market town of Abbotsham where a tiger has escaped from the local zoo. The question is, what kind of tiger would rip a man to shreds & then bury him in his own back garden? This is the dilemma that Gently Sahib explores. Chief Superintendent Gently has been promoted to C.I.D & is called to London to investigate the discovery of the murdered man. Why has the tiger, which was shot dead a year ago, seemingly hidden one of its victims? Gently can be sure that a tiger did not bury its victim so neatly, but then who did? Gently Sahib showcases more of the investigator's sleuthing as he tries to figure out why someone would want to, or need to, bury the murdered man. Gently Sahib is a great murder mystery for fans of the genre & fans of any previous book in the George Gently series. ...

Gently finds that solving the mystery of the body in the bakery is far from being a piece of cake. When small-time gambler & petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got there, but also why his prime suspects all appear to have dark secrets to hide. Why had the deceased villain & two of his friends been spending money like it was going out of fashion? Where had they acquired the cash? Why had they strayed from their usual haunts? Why did Taylor's friends both disappear? In the kind of town where everyone usually knows everything about their neighbours, there are a few surprises in store for the locals & the investigation becomes ever more sinister when one of Taylor's cronies is also found dead. The race is on to find the third man before the killer can claim him as another victim. ...

Murder taints the mountain air when a long-dead climber comes in from the cold. Mountaineer Reginald Kincaid disappeared during an expedition to climb Mount Everest. His body was never recovered, lost on the mountain slopes like so many other casualties of the quest for the world ...

There was no sign of a struggle, no wounds or bruises. To Gently, it looked like Vivienne had simply lain down & died, yet he knew she had been murdered. The Chief Inspector George Gently Case Files Alan Hunter The unflappable Inspector George Gently has become a household name through the hit BBC TV series starring Martin Shaw. These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Alan Hunter's whodunits is somewhat different to his TV counterpart. He is more calculating, more analytical, & his investigations are even more enthralling. ...

There are rumours about a fortune in ancient gold coins hidden somewhere in the rambling old house, so when the house's owner is found dead at the foot of his staircase, Gently immediately suspects foul play. Gently has plenty of suspects for the old man's murder. A warehouse watchman across the street misses nothing that goes on at the house, but can shed no light on the murderer. A local antiques dealer knows a suspicious amount about the house & a good deal more about the treasure that is thought to be hidden within its walls, yet he knows nothing about the killer. When the murderer strikes again, Gently has a high profile case on his hands & faces a night of sheer terror alone in a house whose secret has claimed at least two lives... ...

The death of a young artist leaves Gently to piece together a portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered & her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman ...

Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families – from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds & many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of history. We may well be ‘a nation of shopkeepers’, but for generations England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their l&, in their locality, with a healthy interest in turning a profit from their property & a deep distrust of the centralised state. The virtues we may all believe to be part of the English culture – honesty, affability, courtesy, liberality – each of these has their source in gentry life cultivated over five hundred years. These folk were the backbone of Engl&. Adam Nicolson’s riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families, from 1400 to the present day. From the medieval gung-ho of the Plumpton family to the high-seas adventures of the Lascelles in the eighteenth century, to more modern examples, the book provides a chronological picture of the English, seen through these intimate, passionate, powerful stories of family saga. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archive material, here is a vivid depiction of the life & code of the gentry. ‘ The Gentry’ is first & foremost a wonderful sweep of English history, shedding light on the creation of the distinctive English character but with the sheer readability of an epic novel. ...

How many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.

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