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Chargement... Gently Between Tidespar Alan Hunter
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Drifting upstream on the flood-tide in a dank October mist, a loosed dinghy carries the body of a once lovely girl, strangled. No mystery about who she was...everyone in the small Suffolk community devoted to music and sailing knew Hannah, the pleasant, reclusive Czech girl who lived alone in a Martello Tower by a lonely stretch of sand and shingle. The question is: who could have wanted her dead? Chief Superintendent George Gently, now living in the neighbourhood with his new wife, Gabrielle, is busy painting the stairs when the telephone rings: sighing, he agrees to help the local man with the initial stages of the investigation. But in spite of himself he's drawn into the mystery, as they start to question those who might have known Hannah well. Her ex-husband? Her bookshop employer? The local war-hero? The flashy ex-crook who now runs a pub? As the river ripples back and forth in the mellow autumnal sunshine, Gently and the lugubrious Inspector Leyston set about piecing together fragments from the dead girl's life: two dinghies drawn up on the riverbank by the church; a rendezvous note; two cigarette ends; a poem in Czech... it begins to seem that there was more to Hannah than met the eye. And gradually, into Gently's sympathetic and intuitive mind, understanding flows like the rising tide . . . Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2016) of the original Constable hardcover (1982).
Chief Inspector Gently has moved into the vicinity of the music festival community Shinglebourne with his new French wife Gabrielle. As was the case with Gently Instrumental (Gently #24 - 1977), another local musician is found murdered. The Czech immigrant Hannah was somewhat of a recluse and lived in the restored local Martello Tower (another hint that the fictional Shinglebourne was inspired by the real-life Aldeburgh).
The victim had many admirers and an ex-husband to add to the list of suspects. As usual, although it is not his official case, Gently is called in to assist and can't resist solving the mystery. He makes a few wrong turns along the way but gets there in the end.
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The dust cover of the original US hardcover published by Walker Mysteries in 1983. Image sourced from Goodreads.
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Gently Between Tides was not adapted for the Inspector George Gently TV series (2007-2017). Very few of the TV episodes are based on the original books and the characters are quite different, e.g. Sgt Bacchus does not appear in the books. The timeline for the TV series takes place in the 1960s only. (