H. C. Bailey

Reggie Fortune is a doctor with a knack for solving mysteries. Bailey's writing is deft and his mysteries are tricky, which is a good thing because Reggie is rather a pain, something of a cross between a smarter Bertie Wooster and Ellery Queen. Contains eight short stories, including: The Cigarette Case The Old Bible The Yellow Diamonds The Gipsy Moth The Fairy Cycle The Love Bird

Contains the short stories: The Torn Stocking The Swimming-Pool The Hole in the Parchment The Holy Well The Wistful Goddess The Dead Leaves

Contains six Reggie Fortune stories: The Missing Husband The Cat Burglar The Lion Party The Violet Farm The Quiet Lady The Little House

Published in the UK as Garstons The Garston Murder Case, first published in 1930, is the first book in author H. C. Bailey's series featuring hymn-singing criminal lawyer Joshua Clunk. He investigates stolen industrial secrets and a string of murders on the palatial estate of the Garston family and in the surrounding villages. Along the way, the viewpoints of Scotland Yard's Superintendent Bell, a local police inspector, a Jane Eyre-like nurse, and a young student are also presented, making The Garston Murder Case a classic example of a 'Golden Age' British mystery.

Contains the short stories: THE ARCHDUKE'S TEA THE SLEEPING COMPANION THE NICE GIRL THE EFFICIENT ASSASSIN THE HOTTENTOT VENUS THE BUSINESS MINISTER

Another eight stories about the incredible Mr. Fortune. In these stories the excitement ranges from child kidnapping to ghosts and strange happenings in old country houses. But the ever tenacious Fortune is there with the answers to all the problems.

Traces the struggle for supremacy in Central Asia between the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

Contains the short stories: THE ASCOT TRAGEDY THE PRESIDENT OF SAN JACINTO THE YOUNG DOCTOR THE MAGIC STONE THE SNOWBALL BURGLARY THE LEADING LADY THE UNKNOWN MURDERER

In the firm of Clunk & Clunk, Solicitors, it is the careful routine that any unknown client should be unobtrusively inspected by specialists in every department of its varied practice. The publican, Bryony, was a new client, but he adamantly refused to speak to anyone except Joshua Clunk in person. He was quite right, of course. There is only one Clunk, a plump little creature, with a shining yellow complexion, his own highly original code of morals and a disconcerting propensity for hymn singing. None of which mattered to Bryony. He had come for help, because he was suspected of murder. Help in such circumstances is Mr. Clunk's speciality. What Bryony didn't know, though Mr. Clunk soon suspected, was that the little seaside town of Calbay, where he lived, contained more mysteries than one. The town council was oddly secretive. The local and County police were at daggers drawn with each other. And the death of the unfortunate Gussage was only the first in a whole succession of fatal — and dubious — accidents. And, of course, there was the question of the dead man's shoes. Or, rather, their absence. At first Mr. Clunk seemed to be baffled. But he waited, like a cat, ready to pounce...

Lady Rosnay falls down a set of stairs; Reginald Fortune suspects foul play, but the Lady will hear none of it, and seems too calm about what has happened. Two murders follow, and Reginald, advisor to Scotland Yard, must solve the problem.

Contains six Reggie Fortune stories: The Furnished Cottage The Young God The Only Son The Hermit Crab The Long Barrow The Profiteers

This brilliant new detective novel by the creator of Mr. Reginald Fortune introduces one of the most remarkable of all experts in criminology, Joshua Clunk, the one lawyer in London whom judges and Scotland Yard alike feared more than any other. But even Inspector Bell of the Yard dared not refuse his help in the terrible and sinister mystery of the man found dead beside a broken jar of leeches, of the book with a tracing, and of blood-red Luel Castle, inside whose ancient walls a strange drama of murder and violence plays out its thrilling course.

Meet Mr Reggie Fortune, a doctor by profession, a detective by accident. Mr Fortune is not an ordinary gum-shoe sleuth, yet he has long since established himself as one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of crime detectives. Attached in a loose way to the Home Office and Scotland Yard, he is utterly fearless, and with a cold astuteness belied by his cherubic appearance. His speciality is medicine, although he does not practice. But for his expert opinion on such matters as recently deceased bodies, the more difficult poisons and the like, the Yard would be hard pressed to investigate without him. Reggie Fortune starred in twenty-two novels and short story collections. Much praised for his puzzles and characterisation, the Mr Fortune stories have echoes of Lord Peter Wimsey but are much darker, tackling subjects not touched upon by other major writers, including police corruption and murderous obsession. Contains the short stories: The Ascot Tragedy The Unknown Murderer The Long Barrow The Hermit Crab The Greek Play The Angel's Eye The Long Dinner The Dead Leaves