Gently By The Shore

ALAN HUNTER

Publication: Constable, 1996, London

First edition thus. Originally published in 1956, this is the reissued edition. From the author's personal collection and inscribed on the front fly leaf: "For my wife, Alan." A review copy with slip laid-in. Fine in dust jacket. Author's second book in the Inspector Gently series and set in the English seaside resort town of Starmouth where a naked corpse with no cloths or laundry marks to help in his identification. The body had arrived on the beach early one morning, with four stab wounds in his chest, and Gently now has the problem of how and why had all this occurred. From the library of Alan Hunter. Provenance: the estate of Alan Hunter.

Inventory Number: 44249