The Long Dinner

by H.C. Bailey

Many crime and detective stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

38 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

Henry Christopher Bailey (1878 – 1961) was an English author of detective fiction. Bailey wrote mainly short stories featuring a medically-qualified detective called Reggie Fortune. Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much darker, and often involve murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skulduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Although Mr Fortune is seen at his best in short stories, he also appears in several novels.

A second series character, Josiah Clunk, is a sanctimonious lawyer who exposes corruption and blackmail in local politics, and who manages to profit from the crimes. He appears in eleven novels published between 1930 and 1950, including The Sullen Sky Mystery (1935), widely regarded as Bailey's magnum opus.

Reviews

[Martina Sartor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un altro autore della Golden Age da riscoprire, col suo investigatore Reggie Fortune: medico, consulente di patologia legale e raffinato gourmet, qui si cimenta in un'indagine fra Inghilterra e Francia, dove l'indizio cruciale è un menu di prelibatezze francesi.

[Vintagebooklvr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Raffles is first put on the idea of some sort connection to Brittany because of a menu that came from Brittany and a couple of drawings. That could just have easily meant nothing. In real life it would probably mean nothing but in the world of mysteries it becomes the thing that breaks the case.