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Alan Hunter


Born
in Hoveton, Norfolk, The United Kingdom
June 25, 1922

Died
February 26, 2005

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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Contemporary


Alan Hunter was born at Hoveton, Norfolk and went to school across the River Bure in Wroxham. He left school at 14 and worked on his father's farm near Norwich. He enjoyed dinghy sailing on the Norfolk Broads, wrote natural history notes for the local newspaper, and wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

He married, in 1944, Adelaide Cooper, who survives him with their daughter. After the war he managed the antiquarian books department of Charles Cubitt in Norwich. Four years later, in 1950, he established his own bookshop on Maddermarket in the city.

From 1955 until 1998 he published a Gently detective novel nearly every year. He retired to Brundall in Norfolk where he conti ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 9,786 ratings · 961 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors
Gently Does It
3.78 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 1955 — 22 editions
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Gently By the Shore
3.57 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 1956 — 24 editions
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George Gently Omnibus (Book...
3.86 avg rating — 470 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Gently Down the Stream
3.68 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1957 — 20 editions
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Landed Gently
3.53 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions
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Gently Through the Mill
3.80 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions
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Gently in the Sun
3.68 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1959 — 19 editions
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The Original Inspector Geor...
3.75 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Gently With the Painters
3.61 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1960 — 19 editions
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Gently to the Summit
3.81 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1961 — 17 editions
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Gently Does It Gently By the Shore Gently Down the Stream Landed Gently Gently Through the Mill Gently in the Sun Gently With the Painters
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“There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus
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“He witnessed the persistent operation of self and class interests. He saw how truth could be muzzled, facts distorted, justice mocked in the name of expediency.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus
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“When you talked you involved other people . . . you crept back out of the unbearable loneliness of experience.”
― Alan Hunter, George Gently Omnibus
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