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There's blood in the heather and a murderer on the loose when Gently pays a quite visit to the Highlands of Scotland. Had Brenda Merryn not been such a stong-willed woman and had she not been so much in love with George Gently, driving all the way to Scotland for a holiday with Gently's sister and 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 and becoming involved in a murder would be unthinkable. For Gently, it's all in a day's work and his holiday is put on hold while he stalks a murderer in the mountains, with Brenda by his side. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2012) of the Cassell Crime hardcover original (1967).
The big shock in this one was that the formerly celibate (or at least single) Inspector George Gently was in a relationship, and with a former suspect no less! A foursome consisting of Gently & partner with Gently’s sister and partner head off to Scotland for a fishing vacation. They end up in the middle of murder and in the midst of an apparent training camp for an independent Scottish Nationalist movement. There was plentiful Scottish language used throughout whether in the dialogues with the locals or in the chapter epigraphs. I’ll admit that much of it went over my head except for what I could interpret due to context.
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The dust cover of the original hardcover published by Cassell Crime in 1967. Image sourced from AbeBooks.
Although the solution to the murder became quite evident before the final confrontation, it was still fun to observe Gently away from his normal hunting grounds in Norfolk.
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Gently North-West 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. ( )