Mr. Fortune, Please (H. C. Bailey)

Reggie Fortune investigates murder, blackmail, theft, buried treasure, and kidnapping.

The Wrong Man (H. C. Bailey)

By H.C. BaileyFirst published: US: Doubleday, 1945; UK: Macdonald, 1946 ★ I picked up The Wrong Man at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York in June, and put it down again after 50-odd pages.  I tried again, finished it, and probably won't read it again. I'm a big H. C. Bailey fan; I'd gladly accompany Reggie Fortune …

H.C. Bailey

H.C. Bailey was one of the Big Five writers of the Golden Age, mentioned in the same breath as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many critics - among them Dorothy L. Sayers, Howard Haycraft (Murder for Pleasure, 1941), and Torquemada (The Observer, 31 March 1935) - considered him one of the genre's …