Mr Fortune’s Case Book: Omnibus Containing ‘Call Mr Fortune’, ‘Mr Fortune’s Practice’, ‘Mr Fortune’s Trials’, ‘Mr Fortune, Please’ Kindle Edition

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 titlesCALL MR FORTUNE‘Unusual detective stories… so unexpected, so surprising’ New York TimesMr 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 TranscriptThe 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 SunMr 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 TranscriptAs 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 AUTHORHenry 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. This was at least partly due to tortuous issues regarding his literary estate. His best-known creation was the plump and drawling Reginald Fortune. Much praised for his puzzles and characterisation, the Mr Fortune stories have echoes of Lord Peter Wimsey but are much darker, tackling subjects not touched upon by other major writers, including police corruption and murderous obsession. H.C. Bailey died in 1961. Read more