Download or read book Landed Gently written by Alan Hunter and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It's a cold Christmas in the country when the air is sharp with the chill of murder.