Gently French, Alan Hunter

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Paperback 

THE INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY CASE FILES #20 

NOW A HIT BBC TV SERIES STARRING MARTIN SHAW 

From the cover: 

A vintage Bugatti sports car looks graceful and refined from almost any angle – but not with a corpse behind the steering wheel. 

The dead driver was Flash Freddy, a notorious London gangster whose mob had just pulled off an audacious robbery.  While his underlings had been quickly apprehended, the stolen cash has disappeared and the trail was now as cold as poor old Freddy. 

Abandoned along with his car on a lonely stretch of heath, Freddy had suffered multiple stab wounds, providing George Gently with an intriguing prime suspect for the murder.  Mimi Deslauriers was Freddy’s lover, as gorgeous and elegantly French as his Bugatti and just as fiery beneath her cool exterior.  Stabbing a man hardly seemed like Mimi’s style, yet Freddy had first met her in Paris shortly after she had walked free from a French criminal court . . . acquitted of stabbing her husband to death.