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    Mr. Fortune's Practice
    Mr. Fortune's Practice
    Mr. Fortune's Practice
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    Mr. Fortune's Practice

    By H. C. Bailey

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    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateNov 13, 2022
    ISBN8596547386568
    Mr. Fortune's Practice
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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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