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Chargement... Gently Where the Roads Go (1962)par Alan Hunter
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Appartient à la sérieGeorge Gently (10)
Book 10 in the Chief Inspector George Gently case files finds Gently dodging bullets when he investigates the murder of a trucker who died in a hail of gunfire. Murdered in a lonely lay-by in the heart of the countryside, the trucker is identified as a Polish immigrant. Was this a revenge killing, a quarrel over money, an underworld execution or something even more sinister? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2011) of the Cassell hardcover original (1962).
This is the 10th Inspector George Gently book and also my 10th review. I've managed to source all of the early 1950s & 1960s books on Kindle but after that it becomes a bit more haphazard as only 30 of the 46 have come out as eBooks and the paperbacks will be harder to find. I latched onto the series after enjoying the TV adaptations, but discovered that the original book character is rather different. He has the same unflappable nature and persistence, but you don't get the same sense of the gruff charm as portrayed by actor Martin Shaw. A curious addiction to peppermint sweets in the first several books disappears later on and pipe-smoking is the only remaining quirk.
Gently Where the Roads Go finds the Scotland Yard CID man called in when a trucker of Polish extraction is found murdered by the side of the road. The investigation trail leads to a road house run by a woman who acts suspiciously and then on to a nearby RAF base where supplies and arms have gone missing. There are various tie-ins back to World War II and the issue of Polish refugees working for the RAF. Gently manages to uncover a more sinister connection in the end.
See cover at https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md30769438939.jpg
The dust cover of the original hardcover published by Cassell in 1962. Image sourced from Abe Books.
Trivia and Links
Gently Where the Roads Go was adapted as the 2nd Episode (actually called Season 2 Episode 1, as the 2007 Pilot was considered Season 1) in 2008 of the Inspector George Gently TV series (2007-2017) where it was renamed The Burning Man, with the plot being considerably changed. Very few of the other 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. The full episode can be seen on YouTube here. The framing of the video makes it somewhat awkward to watch. (