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Gently Scandalous (Inspector George Gently, Bk 38)
Gently Scandalous - Inspector George Gently, Bk 38 Author:Alan Hunter There must have been a lot of husbands in Eastgate who would have liked to get their hands on Jeremy Gotts. But they were to be denied, for the handsome young brewery rep, said to be randier than a polecat, with a taste for older women, left the Black Swan around eight o'clock that evening and was never seen alive again. — Jeremykin... more »s. All right so I surrender you bastard. Eight-fifteen and you know where. Don't let me down. Hot Lips. The billet-doux on the dead Lothario's body was the first clue Chief Superintendent George Gently had to what promised to be a local scandal of far-reaching proportions in the select riverside community.
A converted fishing-boat used as a love-nest; a woman's footprints in the yielding mud; a virtual coven of restless wives all swearing to a collective alibi; the unsubstantiated movements of several complacent husbands on that Friday night -- all were signs of a tight-lipped cover-up which stretched Gently's considerable powers of probing and persuasion.« less