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    Call Mr. Fortune
    Call Mr. Fortune
    Call Mr. Fortune
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    Call Mr. Fortune

    By H. C. Bailey

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Call Mr. Fortune" by H. C. Bailey. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN8596547254720
    Call Mr. Fortune
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    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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