Under the Fleur-de-Lis

By H. C. Bailey

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547055501

H. C. Bailey

H. C. Bailey (1878–1961) was an English author of mysteries. He took to writing early, publishing My Lady of Orange (1901) during his senior year at Oxford, and spent many years as a journalist and author of romantic fiction before he began writing detective novels. Call Mr. Fortune (1920) introduced the world to Reggie Fortune, a brilliant investigator with a knack for solving chilling murder mysteries, who would become one of the most popular sleuths of the English golden age of detective fiction.

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