H. C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

An edition of H. C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (2017)

H. C. Bailey's Reggie Fortune and the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

By Laird R. Blackwell

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Publish Date

2017

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Language

eng

Pages

188

Description:

"H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories, published 1920-1940. This critical study examines the Fortune stories in the context of other popular detective fiction of the era"--

subjects: Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, Detectives in literature