Status Updates From Gently Floating (Inspector ...

مترجمة باللغة العربية تحت عنوان( الجثة العائمة)

Raising the night mists the early dew framing the white morning sun heating the ocean the reeded rivers the broads meres pulks deeks yachts wet-awninged tall-masted alder willow sweet briar banks mint-odoured flower-bosked and the white waterlily: all birds such as reed warblers reed pheasants the coughing bittern the musical swan the harsh harnser the flirting waterhen the sad coot [yet another extended soc passage]

He found fourthly a team of technicians equipped with toolbags and paintpots and varnish pots and lengths of raw greyish-pink mahogany and brass screws and mastick who with much hammering sawing drilling planing shaping fitting swearing dressing screwing caulking painting varnishing arguing... [Despite the genre writing, Hunter has occasional stream of consciousness / experimental / comma free passages as well]

His eyes were greenish-hazel eyes which had a mild expression but which were nevertheless penetrating. The driver didn’t know who this man was but supposed he might be a doctor or perhaps a medical specialist on holiday. The expression of his eyes startled the driver and the driver remembered it for some time afterwards. Later he saw a newspaper picture of the man. He was Superintendent George Herbert Gently.

Hunter likes beginning paragraphs with “thus:”