Call Mr. Fortune
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Publisher Description
Mr. Reginald Fortune, medical adviser to Scotland Yard, is, superficially, one of the Wimseyish "silly ass" brigade - g-droppin', epicurean, upper-class, with a monocle-spouting Scotland Yard chief, the Hon. Stanley Lomas, as Watson. However, there's much more to Reggie than this: Reggie Fortune is, like Father Brown or Mrs. Bradley, a sort of divine justice, willing to murder those whom the law cannot touch, or to manipulate the law so that the murderer remains beyond the reach of the law - he refers to himself several times as "an instrument of Providence".
Customer Reviews
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Dr. Reggie Fortune is the most articulate mumbler in detective fiction, and the second most high-spirited grouch (after Nero Wolfe). Readers of the story collection "Call Mr. Fortune" will have the pleasure of catching Reggie in his first investigations, before he even knows he's going to have a career as a detective, and at a point where H.C. Bailey most clearly explains Reggie's peculiar mannerisms. The absolute best Mr. Fortune stories are not here, but this early collection is good enough to make you want more--assuming you like early twentieth-century detective fiction, such as Chesterton's Father Brown stories, or Jacques Futrelle's Thinking Machine, or Ernest Bramah's blind detective Max Corrados.