title: The Original Inspector George Gently Collection
author: Mr Alan Hunter
description: Alan Hunter was born in Hoveton, Norfolk in 1922. He left school at the age of 14 to work on his father's farm, spending his spare time sailing on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the Eastern Evening News. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF during World War II. By 1950, he was running his own book shop in Norwich and in 1955, he wrote the first of 45 George Gently novels. He died in 2005 aged 82.
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  **Alan Hunter** was born in Hoveton, Norfolk, in 1922. He left school at the
  age of fourteen to work on his father’s farm, spending his spare time sailing
  on the Norfolk Broads and writing nature notes for the _Eastern Evening News._
  He also wrote poetry, some of which was published while he was in the RAF
  during the Second World War. By 1950, he was running his own bookshop in
  Norwich. In 1955, the first of what would become a series of forty-six George
  Gently novels was published. He died in 2005, aged eighty-two.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Inspector George Gently series
  
  
  _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_
  
  
  _Gently to the Summit_
  
  
  _Gently Go Man_
  
  
  _Gently Where the Roads Go_
  
  
  _Gently Floating_
  
  
  _Gently Sahib_
  
  
  _Gently with the Ladies_
  
  
  _Gently North-West_
  
  
  _Gently Continental_
  
  
  _Gently at a Gallop