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Mr Fortune’s Case Book: Omnibus Containing ‘Call Mr Fortune’, ‘Mr Fortune’s Practice’, ‘Mr Fortune’s Trials’, ‘Mr Fortune, Please’
The first four books in H.C. Bailey’s Mr Fortune crime series in one omnibus volume‘The most engaging detective invented since Sherlock Holmes’ The New Yorker‘Fortune is a super sleuth who solves problems that are too much for Scotland Yard’ New York Times‘The most engaging detective of fiction’ The ObserverThis 2024 Spitfire Publishers omnibus edition includes a bibliography of all H.C. Bailey’s crime fiction titles
CALL MR FORTUNE
‘Unusual detective stories… so unexpected, so surprising’ New York Times
Mr Reginald Fortune – Reggie to his friends – is a physician, and a man of modest nature. His genius for scientific and medical research, his intuition, has made him an invaluable asset to Scotland Yard’s Criminal Investigation Department. Call Mr Fortune is his first casebook and contains six baffling, peculiar and heinous crimes including the brutal murder of one of his patients and criminal intent in the matchmaking machinations of a Balkan Prince. Mr Fortune’s uncanny flair for the right trail and his deduction from trifles overlooked by others solves the apparently unsolvable.
MR FORTUNE’S PRACTICE
‘Never was Reginal Fortune in finer fettle than in the seven cases of his practice this volume records… irresistible’ Boston Transcript
The debonair Reggie Fortune is an uncommonly astute physician whose ‘practice’ is chiefly in aid of Scotland Yard. Mr Fortune Practice is his second casebook and contains seven ingenious, rare and almost unsolvable crimes. Once he is called in on a case his unusual methods, his intuition, his care, gets results. Much to the relief of Superintendent Bell…
MR FORTUNE’S TRIALS
‘It is seldom that a collection of short detective stories by one author achieves throughout so high a level of all round excellence as is to be found in Mr Fortune’s Trials’ New York Sun
Mr Fortune is not an ordinary gum-shoe sleuth, yet he has long since established himself as one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of crime detectives. Attached in a loose way to the Home Office and Scotland Yard, he is utterly fearless, and with a cold astuteness belied by his cherubic appearance.
Mr Fortune’s Trials is the third of his casebooks and includes six curious, gruesome and ingenious crimes which Reggie investigates through minute, scientific detection.
MR FORTUNE, PLEASE
‘Well-constructed tales of crime… clever and entertaining’ Boston Transcript
As successors to Sherlock Holmes there are no more than a handful of detectives in the great tradition. Mr Reginald Fortune is certainly one of them. His speciality is medicine, although he does not practice, but for expert opinions on such matters as recently deceased bodies, the more difficult poisons and the like, the Yard would be hard pressed to do without him. Mr Fortune, Please is the fourth of his casebooks.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Henry Christopher Bailey was an English crime novelist and one of the Big Five writers of detective fictions in the ‘Golden Age’ which also included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, R. Austin Freeman and Freeman Wills Crofts. Hugely popular at the time and adored by critics he is today unjustly rather forgotten.
CALL MR FORTUNE
‘Unusual detective stories… so unexpected, so surprising’ New York Times
Mr Reginald Fortune – Reggie to his friends – is a physician, and a man of modest nature. His genius for scientific and medical research, his intuition, has made him an invaluable asset to Scotland Yard’s Criminal Investigation Department. Call Mr Fortune is his first casebook and contains six baffling, peculiar and heinous crimes including the brutal murder of one of his patients and criminal intent in the matchmaking machinations of a Balkan Prince. Mr Fortune’s uncanny flair for the right trail and his deduction from trifles overlooked by others solves the apparently unsolvable.
MR FORTUNE’S PRACTICE
‘Never was Reginal Fortune in finer fettle than in the seven cases of his practice this volume records… irresistible’ Boston Transcript
The debonair Reggie Fortune is an uncommonly astute physician whose ‘practice’ is chiefly in aid of Scotland Yard. Mr Fortune Practice is his second casebook and contains seven ingenious, rare and almost unsolvable crimes. Once he is called in on a case his unusual methods, his intuition, his care, gets results. Much to the relief of Superintendent Bell…
MR FORTUNE’S TRIALS
‘It is seldom that a collection of short detective stories by one author achieves throughout so high a level of all round excellence as is to be found in Mr Fortune’s Trials’ New York Sun
Mr Fortune is not an ordinary gum-shoe sleuth, yet he has long since established himself as one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of crime detectives. Attached in a loose way to the Home Office and Scotland Yard, he is utterly fearless, and with a cold astuteness belied by his cherubic appearance.
Mr Fortune’s Trials is the third of his casebooks and includes six curious, gruesome and ingenious crimes which Reggie investigates through minute, scientific detection.
MR FORTUNE, PLEASE
‘Well-constructed tales of crime… clever and entertaining’ Boston Transcript
As successors to Sherlock Holmes there are no more than a handful of detectives in the great tradition. Mr Reginald Fortune is certainly one of them. His speciality is medicine, although he does not practice, but for expert opinions on such matters as recently deceased bodies, the more difficult poisons and the like, the Yard would be hard pressed to do without him. Mr Fortune, Please is the fourth of his casebooks.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Henry Christopher Bailey was an English crime novelist and one of the Big Five writers of detective fictions in the ‘Golden Age’ which also included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, R. Austin Freeman and Freeman Wills Crofts. Hugely popular at the time and adored by critics he is today unjustly rather forgotten.
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Published September 8, 2024
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H.C. Bailey
144 books16 followersHenry 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.
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.
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