The dedication to Gently with the Painters reads as: “To the Norwich Twenty Group of Painters, who suggested, but are not portrayed as, the Palette Group of the novel.” Read more about the Norwich Twenty Group on Wikipedia here. This cover from the 1963 Pan Books paperback edition is a suitable macabre substitute. I could not locate a copy of the dust jacket of the original 1960 hardcover edition from Cassell. Gently sees the case differently and begins to investigate the other artists of the group who each have their eccentricities and secrets to hide. The artist was the sole female member of a local artist's collective and although estranged from her husband, she would not grant him a divorce. Gently with the Painters is a return to form for the Scotland Yard CID Central Office Inspector, after the previous investigation in Gently in the Sun (Gently #6 - 1959) which I reviewed as Not My Gently.Īs usual, Gently is called in to a Norwich provincial investigation where the local authorities can't seem to build a sufficient case against their prime suspect, the husband of a murdered artist. They were a compromise with the truth and he had automatically distrusted them his way was to assemble the facts and to hold them suspended in his mind, where, by a sort of alchemy, they eventually moved into a pattern. Here, again, he was making a discovery – he, in his approach to a case, had never drawn up accounts of this kind. Review of the Constable Kindle eBook edition (2011) of the Cassell hardcover original (1960).
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