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This is the first in the Detective Inspector George Gently series and one I have been looking for, for a while since it makes the start of a series of detection novels I have found surprisingly entertaining to read. The stories are set in 50s England and more precisely east Midlands and the East Coast down to London - areas which I am familiar with (there are in fact several reference to Leicester in this novel).
The book was originally printed in 1955 so I guess at the time it was pretty much a book of its times however it is so atmospheric that now well over 50 years later it still invokes the same ambience and feel, I wonder how many other authors can claim that.
The book is an interesting one as the author noted - it is not a whodunnit but rather an exploration of the process of detection - you quickly form an idea of who did the crime but it take the length of the book to find the evidence and the situation to properly resolve the crime and bring the case to a close.
The books and there is no pun intended - a gentle read which reflects the times it was written in.