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H C Bailey


(Henry Christopher Bailey)
UK flag (1878 - 1961)

Henry Christopher Bailey 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.
 

Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Mr. Fortune
   Call Mr. Fortune (1919)
   Mr. Fortune's Practice (1923)
   Mr. Fortune's Trials (1925)
   Mr. Fortune, Please (1928)
   Mr. Fortune Speaking (1929)
   Mr. Fortune Explains (1930)
   Case for Mr. Fortune (1932)
   Mr. Fortune Wonders (1933)
   Shadow on the Wall (1934)
   Mr. Fortune Objects (1935)
   A Clue for Mr. Fortune (1936)
   Black Land, White Land (1937)
   This Is Mr. Fortune (1938)
   The Great Game (1939)
   Mr. Fortune Here (1940)
   The Bishop's Crime (1940)
   Meet Mr. Fortune (1942)
   No Murder (1942)
     aka The Apprehensive Dog
   The Best of Mr. Fortune (1942)
   Mr. Fortune Finds a Pig (1943)
   The Cat's Whisker (1944)
     aka Dead Man's Effects
   The Life Sentence (1946)
   Saving a Rope (1948)
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Mr. Clunk
   The Garston Murder Case (1930)
     aka Garstons
   The Red Castle (1932)
   The Sullen Sky Mystery (1935)
   Clunk's Claimant (1937)
     aka The Twittering Bird Mystery
   The Veron Mystery (1939)
     aka Mr. Clunk's Text
   The Little Captain (1941)
     aka Orphan Ann
   Dead Man's Shoes (1942)
     aka Nobody's Vineyard
   Slippery Ann (1944)
     aka The Queen of Spades
   The Wrong Man (1946)
   Honour Among Thieves (1947)
   Shrouded Death (1950)
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Novels
   A Gentleman of Fortune (1907)
   The Highwayman (1917)
   The Man in the Cape (1933)
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Anthologies containing stories by H C Bailey
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Ghosts from the Library (2022)
(Bodies from the Library)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Bodies from the Library 5 (2022)
(Bodies from the Library, book 5)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Murder on a Winter's Night (2021)
Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas
(Vintage Murders, book 5)
edited by
Cecily Gayford

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