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The Highwayman (Bailey)
A tale of the days of Good Queen Anne. Across the pages flit the Queen, the great Duke of Marlborough, and, almost the last of his ill-fated race, James Stuart the Old Pretender--all these serve but for a background against which is shown as gallant a romance of villainy, misunderstanding, and high-hearted love as ever made crowns and kingdoms seem of little worth.
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Mr. Fortune's Practice
Mr. Fortune's Practice is a collection of mystery tales involving Reggie Fortune, a medically qualified detective (surgeon), who often deals with dark and dangerous cases including murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skullduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Table of Contents: The Ascot tragedy The President of San Jacinto The Young Doctor The Magic Stone The Snowball Burglary The Leading Lady The Unknown Murderer
The Cases Of Detective Reggie Fortune
Mr. Fortune's Practice is a collection of mystery tales involving Reggie Fortune, a medically qualified detective (surgeon), who often deals with dark and dangerous cases including murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skullduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Table of Contents: The Ascot tragedy The President of San Jacinto The Young Doctor The Magic Stone The Snowball Burglary The Leading Lady The Unknown Murderer
Under the Fleur-de-Lis
This is a complete novelette written in 1924. It was published in Adventure magazine, New York and London, Dec 20, 1924, pp. 121-136. The story opens with a would-be attack on Sylvain de St Lo, a French priest. He is apprehended while on his horse. Unafraid he asks who his attackers are and tells them it will not be good for them if they attack him. On realizing he is French they become afraid and lead him to their master.
H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes--the eccentric logician, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the psychological profiler, the defender of justice. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era. Bailey's classics are distinguished by well-clued puzzles, brilliant sleuthing, vivid description and social critique, with Fortune evoking images of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of truth and justice in an uncaring world.
Call Mr. Fortune
This collection of six classic stories introduces Reggie Fortune, a country doctor with a passion for sweets -- and a lackluster work ethic. But Reggie may have found his true calling when he stumbles into mysteries!
The Highwayman
This is a hugely entertaining history romp book, full of skulduggery, melodrama, and humour. A wonderful Jacobite period romance, with an engaging anti- hero.Harry Boyce at no time in his life had much admiration for human eminence. In this, his hungry youth, he was set upon despising rank and power, great fame and pure virtue, as no more than the luck of fools. He would always atone by finding sympathy and excuses for any rogue's roguery. Highly fortified in this faith by the exhibition of Marlborough's matrimonial happiness.
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