Gently With The Innocents

ALAN HUNTER

Publication: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1970, London

First edition. Inscribed on the front fly leaf to the author's daughter. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front fly leaf "1970 / For Helen / From Daddy." The sixteenth George Gently novel, scarce in inscribed state and with impeccable provenance. Fine, bright, tight copy in dust jacket. A young man approaches Gently bearing a very rare and perfect specimen of a gold Innocent the third medal which he claimed to have found in the house after his uncle's death. Convinced that the old man's death was no accident, and that he was likely to be the chief suspect, he begged Gently to please become involved. Provenance: the estate of Alan Hunter.

Inventory Number: 44255