Bailey, H.C. Case for Mr. Fortune. London: Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. 1932.
8vo. Original red boards with black lettering to spine and publishers emblem to front board; illustrated dust jacket with black title; pp. [vi], 320; minimal bumping to top and bottom of spine, offsetting from front and rear pastedowns, foxing to preliminaries and foredge, prior ownership label to front pastedown, "The Holliday Bookshop" label to rear pastedown; fading dust jacket spine; otherwise very good.
First edition, in a very well-preserved dust jacket.
A drama critic and also a war correspondent during the First World War, H.C. Bailey became one of the most notable and respected writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. He authored widely divergent, dark stories, involving multiple homicides, disappearances, police corruption, and obstruction of justice.
Case for Mr. Fortune is advertised as "another opportunity, and it should not be missed" (blurb) to encounter the famous investigations of doctor turned detective Mr. Fortune in the form of eight cases in short story form.
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