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H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), 1920: Call Mr. Fortune

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Henry Christopher Bailey is best known for creating detective character Reggie Fortune, who appears in eighty-five short stories and ten novels. Fortune is a doctor who becomes medical advisor to Scotland Yard after his skill in solving crimes comes to the attention of the police. Bailey also wrote a series of crime novels featuring Joshua Clunk, an unscrupulous lawyer who solves puzzling cases that he often profits from himself. Bailey was a founding member of the Detection Club along with other successful crime writers of the day including E. C. Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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    Megan Hoffman

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Hoffman, M. (2020). H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), 1920: Call Mr. Fortune. In: Miskimmin, E. (eds) 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31902-9_22

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