MR. FORTUNE EXPLAINS

Henry Christopher Bailey (1878–1961) was an English detective author. Reggie Fortune, a medically qualified detective, is a protagonist of a lot of his stories. Dark atmosphere, mortal obsessions, corruption and vices – these are Bailey’s detective fiction distinctive feature. The Sullen Sky Mystery (1935) is considered to be his greatest work. Bailey’s works were published in various magazines. 


Mr. Fortune Explains is a collection of novels by Henry Bailey. All the stories share only a protagonist – a doctor detective Reggie Fortune, with whom you will walk through some dark corners of human nature, catch some crooks, do solve some mysteries and do some other detective routine. For the fight with crime is a fight with no conclusion, an eternal fight, constantly catching more and more people’s lives under its wheels roll. And it is up men like Fortune to fight fire with fire. This collection is a real present for every fan of the mid XX century detective fiction lover.