Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country, fishing for pike, Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall, a nearby stately home, is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning.
At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident, but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions and is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder.
Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads that Gently must unravel in his investigation are more complex than any weaver's design, with everyone from the lord of the manor to his most lowly servant falling under suspicion.
Praise for Alan Hunter's Gently books:
'It is always a pleasure to look forward to another Gently book by Alan Hunter ...' Police Review
- ISBN10 0745186637
- ISBN13 9780745186634
- Publish Date 3 July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Black Dagger Crime
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English