Download or read book The Cases Of Detective Reggie Fortune written by H. C. Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Call Mr Fortune written by H.C. Bailey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book H C Bailey s Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Call Mr Fortune written by H. C. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of Reggie Fortune stories. Mr. Fortune is a doctor whose medical genius aids the Scotland Yard in solving mysteries. As a doctor, "Reggie" is a delightful fellow. As an efficient assistant to Scotland Yard he is deadly.
Download or read book Call Mr Fortune written by H. C. Bailey and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-03-15T18:29:43Z with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call Mr. Fortune is the first set of short stories featuring Reggie Fortune, a detective who solves mysteries using his medical talent and “unequaled sanity of judgment.” The first case finds him suspecting that his patient might have been a victim of a failed assassination. In “The Hottentot Venus,” Mr. Fortune’s investigation into some incidents at his acquaintance’s all-girls school leads him into a predicament; meanwhile, what seems to be an ordinary leak scandal in “The Business Minister” is soon complicated by the discovery of a dead body, which seems to be unrelated to the leak, yet holds the key to the truth. Each of the cases in the collection characterizes Mr. Fortune as not only an extraordinary detective, but also an excellent doctor. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Mr Fortune s Practice written by H. C. Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book My Lady of Orange written by H. C. Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Lady of Orange revolves around William the Silent, aka William of Orange, and his involvement in the Dutch Revolt. Set near the end of 16th century, when William of Orange was rebelling against Spanish rule of the Netherlands, the story is told from the perspective of an English mercenary leader, John Newstead, who decides to switch sides and joins the Dutch rebels.
Download or read book Frederic Dannay Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.
Download or read book Partners in Crime written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Famous Volume Of Tommy & Tuppence Linked Short Stories, Reissued In A New Look To Coincide With The Brand New Series Of Tommy & Tuppence Bbc Movies. Tommy And Tuppence Beresford Were Restless For Adventure, So When They Were Asked To Take Over Blunt S International Detective Agency, They Leapt At The Chance. After Their Triumphant Recovery Of A Pink Pearl, Intriguing Cases Kept On Coming Their Way: A Stabbing On Sunningdale Golf Course; Cryptic Messages In The Personal Columns Of Newspapers; And Even A Box Of Poisoned Chocolates.
Download or read book Doctor Detectives in the Mystery Novel written by Howard Brody and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 ALA Book Club October Pick, Things that Go Bump: Paranormal Mysteries David Randall's perfect family life came derailed when his little daughter Lindsey died in a car crash. Thrown out by his second wife and wanting to leave a dead-end detective agency to start his own, he reluctantly accepts his psychic friend Camden's invitation to stay in Camden's boarding house in Parkland, North Carolina. Meanwhile, working the case of the murder of Albert Bennett, Randall's only clue is a notebook filled with odd musical notation. When another client, Melanie Gentry, hires him to prove her great-grandmother was murdered by her lover, composer John Burrows Ashford, over authorship of "Patchwork Melodies," Randall sets out to find a connection to Bennett's murder, as well as to the murder of a Smithsonian director, who was preparing a new PBS documentary on early American music. Randall's investigations lead him to another notebook, where he finds not only "Two Hearts Singing," Ashford's most famous song, but a valuable early copy of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna," hidden in the cover. But things become more complicated when Ashford's spirit parks itself in Cam...and refuses to leave until Randall proves Ashford's innocence.
Download or read book Big Sky written by Kate Atkinson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network -- and back across the path of his old friend Reggie. Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking novel by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today. "Thank goodness the long Jackson Brodie hiatus is over." --Janet Maslin, New York Times
Download or read book Bodies from the Library 4 written by Ngaio Marsh and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.
Download or read book Twelve Englishmen of Mystery written by Earl F. Bargainnier and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.
Download or read book The Metaphysical Mysteries of G K Chesterton written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid writing, brilliant puzzles, biting social criticism, and metaphysical explorations of life's great questions. This book presents the first in-depth analysis of his works both as classics of the detective genre and as meaningful philosophical inquiries. The Father Brown stories are examined along with Chesterton's less well known fiction, including the short stories about Mr. Pond, Gabriel Gale, Basil and Rupert Grant, Horne Fisher, Dr. Adrian Hyde and Philip Swayne, and the novels The Man Who Was Thursday and Manalive.
Download or read book Talking About Detective Fiction written by P. D. James and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. D. James examines the genre of detective fiction from top to bottom, beginning with the mystery plots at the hearts of such novels as Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, and bringing us firmly into the present with such writers as Amanda Cross and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Josephine Tey, among many others. She traces the facts of their lives into and out of their work; clarifies their individual styles; and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they've created: from Sherlock Holmes, "the unchallenged Great Detective," to Sara Paretsky's spunky, sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American "Golden Age" mystery writing, including the groundbreaking work of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. She discusses detective fiction as social history; the stylistic components of the genre; her own process of writing; how critics have reacted over the years (Edmund Wilson hated it, W.H. Auden was "addicted"); and what she sees as a renewal of detective stories—and of the detective hero—in recent years. Here is the perfect marriage of writer and subject—essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.
