Gently and the Camper
Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2011) of the Cassell hardcover original (1974).

Superintendent Gently is called in on a suspected suicide by film director Adrian Stoll who is found gassed in his caravette (a small mobile home) in a forest where he was filming a badger sett. It is soon determined to be murder though and the suspects are plentiful from the victim's worlds of cinema and family.

I found this one to be a bit tiresome with its dated hipster jargon esp. with Gently being regularly called the "fuzz." It all hearkened back to Gently Go Man (Gently #9 - 1961) with which this #21 in the series had a twisty connection. I jumped ahead from #11 to #21 in this reading as some of the interim books are more difficult to source (only 30 of the 46 are available on Kindle for instance).

I'm still continuing with the George Gently novels as my current 'light' reading next to more serious reads and/or my translation work. They are more along the cozy line in that way and I still try to imagine Martin Shaw from the TV series in the Gently role, even though the TV adaptation was quite different.

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The dust cover of the original hardcover published by Cassell in 1974. Image sourced from Goodreads.

Trivia and Links
The George Gently books were adapted as the TV series Inspector George Gently (2008-2017) with actor Martin Shaw in the title role. Very few of the TV episodes are based on the original books though 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. A trailer for the first episode can be seen here. ( )