Bailey, H.C. Mr. Fortune Wonders. London: Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. 1933.
8vo. Original publishers red boards with black lettering to spine and publishers emblem to front board; illustrated dust jacket with black title; pp. [vi], 316, [+ 4 publishers ads]; white spotting to spine and foxing to foredge, offsetting from front and rear pastedowns, prior ownership label stamped to front pastedown alongside "The Holliday Bookshop" label to rear, browning to dust jacket spine; otherwise very good.
First UK edition.
"Wonderful how he knows men", says Superintendent Bell, of Scotland Yard, concerning Mr. Fortune".
A drama critic and also a war correspondent during the First World War, H.C. Bailey became one of the most-read writers of the "Golden Age" of detective fiction. He authored widely divergent, dark stories, involving multiple homicides, disappearances, police corruption, and obstruction of justice.
Mr. Fortune Wonders contains eight stories in the famous Reggie Fortune compilation and is the eleventh in the series.
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