By Laird R. Blackwell

 H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was once the most well known protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune seemed in 9 novels but it was once in a sequence of eighty four brief tales that have been released from 1920 to 1940 the place he really shone, combining components of numerous well known archetypes—the eccentric truth seeker, the forensic investigator, the hard-boiled interrogator, the mental profiler, the defender of justice.
This severe research examines the Fortune tales within the context of alternative renowned detective fiction of the period. Bailey’s classics are wonderful via well-clued puzzles, very good sleuthing, bright description and social critique, with Fortune evoking pictures of Don Quixote and the Arthurian Knights in his pursuit of fact and justice in an uncaring world.

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