H. C. Bailey

H. C. Bailey (full name Henry Christopher Bailey) was an English author of mysteries. He took to writing early, publishing <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16889283W/My_lady_of_Orange>*My Lady of Orange*</a> (1901) during his senior year at Oxford, and spent many years as a journalist and author of romantic fiction before he began writing detective novels. <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13112015W/Call_Mr._Fortune>*Call Mr. Fortune*</a> (1920) introduced the world to Reggie Fortune, a brilliant investigator with a knack for solving chilling murder mysteries, who would become one of the most popular …