H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670692
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis H.C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by : Laird R. Blackwell

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 2017-06-30 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.

The Cases Of Detective Reggie Fortune

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cases Of Detective Reggie Fortune by : H. C. Bailey

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

Call Mr. Fortune

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Call Mr. Fortune by : Henry Christopher Bailey

Download or read book Call Mr. Fortune written by Henry Christopher Bailey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Call Mr. Fortune" by Henry Christopher Bailey. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Bodies from the Library 4

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008380988
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Book Synopsis Bodies from the Library 4 by : Ngaio Marsh

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.

This is Mr Fortune

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Publisher : Lythway Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis This is Mr Fortune by : Henry Christopher Bailey

Download or read book This is Mr Fortune written by Henry Christopher Bailey and published by Lythway Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under the Fleur-de-Lis

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
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Book Synopsis Under the Fleur-de-Lis by : H. C. Bailey

Download or read book Under the Fleur-de-Lis written by H. C. Bailey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Guilty Creatures

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464215855
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis Guilty Creatures by : Martin Edwards

Download or read book Guilty Creatures written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unusually rewarding anthology whose most dangerous species remain Homo sapiens."— Kirkus Reviews Feline friends, canine companions and aviary associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction—be they detectives, or delinquents. Martin Edwards reaches into the British Library of Crime Classics to collect mysteries featuring an animal cohort. Guilty Creatures celebrates an often-overlooked species of classic crime fiction. Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centered around cats, dogs, and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakeets, and serpents—complete with a customary shoal of red herrings. The collection includes an introduction on animals in detective fiction by Martin Edwards. "From the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's locked room puzzle 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' onwards, animals, birds, and insects have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a wide variety of ways. Count Fosco, the brilliantly characterized villain in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was surrounded by "a cockatoo, two canary-birds and a whole family of white mice," while the hound of the Baskervilles famously terrorised Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's superb Sherlock Holmes novel. Since then, many crime writers have written about members of the animal kingdom."

The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631379
Total Pages : 189 pages
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Book Synopsis The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton by : Laird R. Blackwell

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.

Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527564800
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Doctor-Detectives in the Mystery Novel by : Howard Brody

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.

Mr. Fortune's Practice

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ISBN 13 : 9781690026679
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)

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Book Synopsis Mr. Fortune's Practice by : H. C. Bailey

Download or read book Mr. Fortune's Practice written by H. C. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476635617
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story by : Laird R. Blackwell

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.

Deep Waters

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464211787
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis Deep Waters by : Martin Edwards

Download or read book Deep Waters written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder. The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended dwellers and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. How might a thief plot their escape from a floating crime scene? And what is to follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface? This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, and R. Austin Freeman.

Twelve Englishmen of Mystery

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Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879722500
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Twelve Englishmen of Mystery by : Earl F. Bargainnier

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.

Mr. Fortune's Practice

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Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Mr. Fortune's Practice by : H. C. Bailey

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

A Lost Lady

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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728290909
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Book Synopsis A Lost Lady by : Willa Cather

Download or read book A Lost Lady written by Willa Cather and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with her husband, the ageing industrial magnate Captain Forrester, in the small town of Sweet Water. To the young, adoring narrator Niel Herbert, she is both bewitching and beautiful. The very definition of a lady. But Marrian Forrester is not what she seems and sparked by the death of her husband; her social decline lays bare her contradictions to the town. Published in 1923, Cather’s revered novel is an elegy to the pioneer west. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald acknowledged its influence on his famous work ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the character of Daisy Buchanan in particular. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who won acclaim for her novels that captured the American pioneer experience. Her books include ‘O Pioneers!’ (1913), ‘The Song of the Lark’ (1915), ‘My Ántonia’ (1918) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) which was an instant critical success. In 1923, Cather gained widespread international recognition when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ‘One of Ours’, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather was granted honorary degrees by Princeton, Berkeley and Yale and in 1931 she graced the cover of Time Magazine. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her a gold medal for fiction in 1944.

Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008289239
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Book Synopsis Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection by : Agatha Christie

Download or read book Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598844466
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Book Synopsis 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors by : Bernard A. Drew

Download or read book 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authors—without any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.