Order of Alan Hunter Books
Alan Hunter (1922-2005) was an English author of crime fiction. After leaving school at 14, he worked on his family farm and enjoyed writing natural history notes for the newspaper as well as poetry. All of his novels are part of his Inspector George Gently series, for which he wrote one novel almost every year he was active.
Alan Hunter became a published author in 1944 when his poems were collected and released as The Norwich Poems, which is long since out-of-print. His debut novel was published in 1955, entitled Gently Does It. He wrote a total of 46 novels over the course of his career, with the final one being Gently Mistaken, which was published in 1999. Below is a list of Alan Hunter’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Inspector George Gently Books
| Gently Does It | (1955) |    |
| Gently By the Shore | (1956) | |
| Gently Down the Stream | (1957) | |
| Landed Gently | (1957) | |
| Gently Through the Mill | (1958) | |
| Gently in the Sun | (1959) | |
| Gently With The Painters | (1960) | |
| Gently to the Summit | (1961) | |
| Gently Go Man | (1961) | |
| Gently Where The Roads Go | (1962) | |
| Gently Floating | (1963) | |
| Gently Sahib | (1964) | |
| Gently with the Ladies | (1965) | |
| Gently North-West | (1967) | |
| Gently Continental | (1967) | |
| Gently Coloured | (1969) | |
| Gently with the Innocents | (1970) | |
| Gently at a Gallop | (1971) | |
| Gently Where She Lay | (1972) | |
| Gently French | (1973) | |
| Gently in Trees / Gently Through the Woods | (1974) | |
| Gently with Love | (1975) | |
| Gently Where the Birds are | (1976) | |
| Gently Instrumental | (1977) | |
| Gently to a Sleep | (1978) | |
| The Honfleur Decision | (1980) | |
| Gabrielle's Way | (1981) | |
| Fields of Heather / Death on the Heath | (1981) | |
| Gently Heartbroken / The Scottish Decision | (1981) | |
| Gently Between Tides | (1982) | |
| Amorous Leander / Death on the Broadlands | (1983) | |
| Unhung Man | (1984) | |
| Once a prostitute... | (1984) | |
| The Chelsea Ghost | (1985) | |
| Goodnight, Sweet Prince | (1986) | |
| Strangling Man | (1987) | |
| Traitor's End | (1988) | |
| Gently With The Millions | (1989) | |
| Gently Scandalous | (1990) | |
| Gently To A Kill | (1991) | |
| Gently Tragic | (1992) | |
| Gently in the Glens | (1993) | |
| Bomber's Moon | (1994) | |
| Jackpot! | (1995) | |
| The Love of Gods | (1997) | |
| Over Here | (1998) | |
| Gently Mistaken | (1999) | |
| Gently Under Fire | (2014) | |
| Gently Sinking | (2014) | |
| Gently in the Past | (2016) | |
| Gently with Passion | (2016) | |
Notes: Gently North-West was also published under the title of Gently in the Highlands. Gently in Trees was alternatively titled Gently Through the Woods. Fields of Heather was also titled Death on the Heath. Amorous Leander is also known as Death on the Broadlands. The Unhanged Man was also published as Unhung Man.
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